CVE-2016-5040

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.4%
Published: 2/17/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5040

Description

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.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)