CVE-2015-8750

NameCVE-2015-8750
Descriptionlibdwarf 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-388-1, DLA-669-1
Debian Bugs813182

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dwarfutils (PTS)buster20180809-1fixed
bullseye20201201-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm20210528-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dwarfutilssourcesqueeze20100214-1+deb6u1DLA-388-1
dwarfutilssourcewheezy20120410-2+deb7u2DLA-669-1
dwarfutilssourcejessie20120410-2+deb8u1
dwarfutilssource(unstable)20160507-1813182

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294264
https://github.com/tomhughes/libdwarf/commit/11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697
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