CVE-2016-8679

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8679
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8679.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8679
Downstream
Published
2017-02-15T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages