ubuntu · CVE-2016-2091

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-02-08 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:26 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2091 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 8 status rows across 8 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, released 3, not-affected 2.

Description:

The dwarf_read_cie_fde_prefix function in dwarf_frame2.c in libdwarf 20151114 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted ELF object file.

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