Upstream information

CVE-2016-5041 at MITRE

Description

dwarf_macro5.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a debugging information entry using DWARF5 and without a DW_AT_name.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 981543 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libdwarf-devel >= 20210528-1.2
  • libdwarf-devel-static >= 20210528-1.2
  • libdwarf-doc >= 20210528-1.2
  • libdwarf-tools >= 20210528-1.2
  • libdwarf1 >= 20210528-1.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA libdwarf-devel-20210528-1.2

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 25 05:37:39 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Jun 30 11:31:14 2023