vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9275: dwarfutils -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the _dwarf_skim_forms function in libdwarf/dwarf_macro5.c in Libdwarf before 20161124 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read).

Solution

debian-upgrade-dwarfutils
Title
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