Where
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0
Severity
7.5
Double Free
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A double-free vulnerability was found in libdwarf. In a multiply-corrupted DWARF object, libdwarf may try to dealloc(free) an allocation twice, potentially causing unpredictable and various results.

1 / 3
Source: NVD
First published (updated )
Severity
8.1
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in libdwarf 0.4.0. This issue is related to dwarfglobalformrefb.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

libdwarf 0.4.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in dwarfcheckstringvalid in dwarfutil.c.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

libdwarf before 20201201 allows a dwarfprintlines.c NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a DWARF5 line-table header that has an invalid FORM for a pathname.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via an invalid line table in a crafted object.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Divide by Zero
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

dwarfelfloadheaders.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service

1 / 2
Source: Microsoft
First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An out of bounds heap read vulnerability was found in dwarfgetabbrevforcode triggered by invoking dwarfdump command on crafted file.

Upstream patches:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/2d14a7792889e33bc542c28d0f3792964c46214f/#diff-13 https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/efe48cad0693d6994d9a7b561e1c3833b073a624/#diff-2

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/146

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An out of bounds heap read vulnerability was found in dwarfgetsizeofval triggered by invoking dwarfdump command on crafted file.

Upstream patches:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/2d14a7792889e33bc542c28d0f3792964c46214f/#diff-13 https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/efe48cad0693d6994d9a7b561e1c3833b073a624/#diff-2

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/144

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

(1) libdwarf/dwarfleb.c and (2) dwarfdump/printframes.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."

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

dwarfform.c in libdwarf 20160115 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted elf file.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The createfullestfilepath function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted dwarf file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dumpblock function in printsections.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted frame data.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The getattrvalue function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted object with all-bits on.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfdealloc function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfgetxuhashentry function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfgetmacrostartendfile function in dwarfmacro5.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted string offset for .debugstr.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Integer overflow in the dwarfdiedeliv.c in libdwarf 20160613 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfgetarangeslist function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An out of bounds heap read vulnerability was found in dwarfgetabbrevforcode triggered by invoking dwarfdump command on crafted file.

Upstream patch:

https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/268c1f18d1d28612af3b72d7c670076b1b88e51c/tree/libdwarf/dwarfutil.c?diff=0b28b923c3bd9827d1d904feed2abadde4fa5de2

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/145

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The readlinetableprogram function in dwarflinetablereadercommon.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted input.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfcalculateinfosectionendptr function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The printexprloccontent function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The printframeinstbytes function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

libdwarf 20151114 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a debugabbrev section marked NOBITS in an ELF file.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfreadlinetableheader function in dwarflinetablereader.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a large length value in a compilation unit header.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The printframeinstbytes function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an object file with empty bss-like sections.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

dwarfelfaccess.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted file, related to relocation records.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The WRITEUNALIGNED function in dwarfelfaccess.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The dwarfloadsection function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted file.

First published (updated )

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