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ubuntu-cve-2016-8680

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-02-15 21:59

Modified

2026-04-22 07:38

Summary

Details

The _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code function in dwarf_util.c in libdwarf 20161001 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by calling the dwarfdump command on a crafted file.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8680	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1…	REPORT
	https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/268c1f…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8680	REPORT

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CVE-2016-8680 (GCVE-0-2016-8680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-15 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:27

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385686	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/268c1f…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93595	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/04/libdwarf-…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2016-10-15 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-8680 (GCVE-0-2016-8680)

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