ubuntu · CVE-2016-9275

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-23 18:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:13:30 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9275 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 4, not-affected 3, DNE 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the _dwarf_skim_forms function in libdwarf/dwarf_macro5.c in Libdwarf before 20161124 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read).

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