Bug 1340111 (CVE-2016-5042) - CVE-2016-5042 libdwarf: Infinite loop in dwarf_get_arranges_list()
Summary: CVE-2016-5042 libdwarf: Infinite loop in dwarf_get_arranges_list()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-5042
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-05-26 13:18 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-26 13:42:46 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-26 13:18:22 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in libdwarf. In dwarf_get_aranges_list() an invalid count will iterate, reading from memory addresses that increase till it all fails. 

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/98a3da1e8237fe0d45b67ef77f3fa5ed9ff0215f
Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2016-05-26 13:20:29 UTC 
Already fixed in Fedora.
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