CVE-2016-8679

The dwarfgetsizeofval function in libdwarf/dwarfutil.c in Libdwarf before 20161124 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by calling the dwarfdump command on a crafted file.

Database specific

{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1999-12-14"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2016-11-24"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:libdwarf_project:libdwarf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "libdwarf_project:libdwarf"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code

Events

Introduced

Fixed

fd1d490f0815994a870744d99660ed72585f3741

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "20161124"
        }
    ],
    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
}

Affected versions

Other

20110113

20110605

20110607

20110612

20110908

20111009

20111030

20111214

20120410

20121127

20121130

20130125

20130126

20130207

20130729

20130729-b

20140131

20140208

20140413

20140519

20140805

20150112

20150115

20150310

20150507

20150913

20150915

20151114

20160116

20160507

20160613

20160923

20160929

20161001

20161021

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8679.json"