CVE-2015-8750

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-12-25
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1296986: CVE-2015-8750 libdwarf: NULL pointer dereference in dwarf_utils.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libdwarf 20151114 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a debug_abbrev section marked NOBITS in an ELF file.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8750 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 1.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libdwarf Will not fix

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