ubuntu · CVE-2016-5044

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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-2016-5044 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 WRITE_UNALIGNED function in dwarf_elf_access.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.

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