PT-2017-8671

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libdwarf versions prior to 20160923 Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an out-of-bounds write and crash, via a crafted DWARF section. This is due to a problem in the WRITE UNALIGNED functio...

libdwarf 'WRITE_UNALIGNED()' Function Denial of Service Vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'WRITEUNALIGNED' function of libdwarf. The vulnerability can be exploited to cause a denial of service free copy, heap buffer overflow, and write out of bounds with a...