Bug 1340106 (CVE-2016-5038) - CVE-2016-5038 libdwarf: Out-of-bounds read in dwarf_get_macro_startend_file()
Summary: CVE-2016-5038 libdwarf: Out-of-bounds read in dwarf_get_macro_startend_file()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5038
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1340128 1340129
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-26 13:07 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:53:01 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:07:03 UTC 
An out-of-bounds read was found in dwarf_get_macro_startend_file(). Test object shows out of bound read. OOB at: line 772 *src_file_name = macro_context->mc_srcfiles[trueindex]; in dwarf_macro5.c A string offset into .debug_str is outside the bounds of the .debug_str section. 

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/393

External references:

https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html

Upstream fix:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/82d8e007851805af0dcaaff41f49a2d48473334b
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:42:45 UTC 
Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340128]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1340129]
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