ubuntu · CVE-2016-9558

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-28 18:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:56:29 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9558 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 23 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 18, ignored 2, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

(1) libdwarf/dwarf_leb.c and (2) dwarfdump/print_frames.c in libdwarf before 20161124 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted bit pattern in a signed leb number, aka a "negation overflow."

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