vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-5044)

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 in dwarf_elf_access.c:1071. A crafted ELF file may lead to a large offset value, which bigger than the size of target_section heap chunk, then this WRITE_UNALIGNED() function will write the value of &outval out of the heap chunk. The offset is a 64bit unsigned int value, so this is more than a heap overflow bug, but also a out-of-bound write bug.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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