ubuntu · CVE-2016-5043

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Priority: low Published: 2017-02-17 17:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:55:13 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5043 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 24 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 19, ignored 2, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

The dwarf_dealloc function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.

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