vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9558: dwarfutils -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 28, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

(1) libdwarf/dwarf_leb.c and (2) dwarfdump/print_frames.c in libdwarf before 20161124 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted bit pattern in a signed leb number, aka a "negation overflow."

Solution

debian-upgrade-dwarfutils
Title
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