debian · CVE-2016-5040

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:16:53 GMT

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CVE-2016-5040 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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