UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9558

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9558
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9558.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9558
Upstream
Published
2017-02-28T18:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:58Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

(1) libdwarf/dwarfleb.c and (2) dwarfdump/printframes.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."

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / dwarfutils

Package

Name
dwarfutils
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/dwarfutils@20120410-2+deb7u2build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

Other
20120410-2
20120410-2+deb7u2build0.*
20120410-2+deb7u2build0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "20120410-2+deb7u2build0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20120410-2+deb7u2build0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libdwarf-dev"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9558.json"