CVE-2016-5040 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5040?

CVE-2016-5040 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Feb 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a large length value in a compilation unit header.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5040?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Libdwarf Project Libdwarf.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5040?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5040 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5040 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2017-9052 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9054 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9055 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-9558 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-9053 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5040, GHSA-mf89-8vq6-qjf7, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5040.