CVE-2020-28163

Summary

CVECVE-2020-28163
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-16 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-26 15:42:00 UTC
Descriptionlibdwarf before 20201201 allows a dwarf_print_lines.c NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a DWARF5 line-table header that has an invalid FORM for a pathname.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libdwarf Project Libdwarf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug Access Denied MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
libdwarf - DWARF debugging information download | SourceForge.net MISC web.archive.org
modified: libdwarf/dwarf_print_lines.c · davea42/libdwarf-code@faf9940 · GitHub MISC github.com
DA's Libdwarf Vulnerabilities MISC www.prevanders.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180660 Debian Security Update for dwarfutils (CVE-2020-28163)
  • 296108 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 66.164.1 Missing (CPUJAN2024)
  • 907858 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libdwarf (33328-1)
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