CVE-2015-8750 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/07/11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294264 https://github.com/tomhughes/libdwarf/commit/11750a2838e52953013e3114ef27b3c7b1780697

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5