vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-5029)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in libdwarf in create_fullest_file_path() function. This is due to corrupted dwarf and the fix detects this corruption and if that null string pointer happens undetected a static string is substituted so readers can notice the situation.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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