CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8750
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
libdwarf 20151114 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a debug_abbrev section marked NOBITS in an ELF file.
Affected configurations
• libdwarf project libdwarf (>= 1999-12-14 <= 2015-11-14)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294264 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomhughes/libdwarf/commit/11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294264 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tomhughes/libdwarf/commit/11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory