vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-5040)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in libdwarf. If the data read for a compilation unit header contains a too large length value the library will read outside of its bounds and crash the application.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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