ubuntu · CVE-2016-5036

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-17 17:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:42:44 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5036 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 3, ignored 2, not-affected 2.

Description:

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

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