Bug 1385686 (CVE-2016-8680) - CVE-2016-8680 libdwarf: Out of bounds heap read in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code
Summary: CVE-2016-8680 libdwarf: Out of bounds heap read in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-8680
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1385692 1385693
Blocks: 1385691
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-17 13:47 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-14 08:04:30 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-17 13:47:06 UTC 
An out of bounds heap read vulnerability was found in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code triggered by invoking dwarfdump command on crafted file.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/268c1f18d1d28612af3b72d7c670076b1b88e51c/tree/libdwarf/dwarf_util.c?diff=0b28b923c3bd9827d1d904feed2abadde4fa5de2

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/145
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-17 14:00:17 UTC 
Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1385692]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1385693]
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