1005050 – (CVE-2016-8680) VUL-1: CVE-2016-8680: libdwarf: heap-based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code (dwarf_util.c)

Bug 1005050 (CVE-2016-8680) - VUL-1: CVE-2016-8680: libdwarf: heap-based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code (dwarf_util.c)

Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2016-8680: libdwarf: heap-based buffer overflow in _dwarf_get_abbr...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2016-8680

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Minor
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Assignee:	Michael Matz
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/173652/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv2:SUSE:CVE-2016-8680:5.1:(AV:N/A...
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Reported:	2016-10-17 09:43 UTC by Johannes Segitz
Modified:	2024-05-20 13:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Johannes Segitz 2016-10-17 09:43:41 UTC

CVE-2016-8680. Reported by Agostino Sarubbo

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/04/libdwarf-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code-dwarf_util-c/

AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow ... READ of size 1
libdwarf/dwarf_util.c:624:43 in _dwarf_get_abbrev_for_code

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

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-8680
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/145

Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-10-17 22:02:12 UTC

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