Bug 1398176 (CVE-2016-9558) - CVE-2016-9558 libdwarf: Negation overflow in dwarf_leb.c
Summary: CVE-2016-9558 libdwarf: Negation overflow in dwarf_leb.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-9558
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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Depends On: 1399992
Blocks: 1394806
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Reported: 2016-11-24 09:30 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-15 07:33:48 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-24 09:30:42 UTC 
A negation overflow vulnerability was found in dwarf_leb.c triggered by crafted input to dwarfdump utility.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/4f19e1050cd8e9ddf2cb6caa061ff2fec4c9b5f9/#diff-5

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/471
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-30 08:42:03 UTC 
Created libdwarf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1399992]
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