CVE-2020-28163 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

libdwarf 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Libdwarf Project	Libdwarf

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:libdwarf_project:libdwarf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://web.archive.org/web/20190601140703/https://sourceforge.net/projects/libdwarf/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026000
https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code/commit/faf99408e3f9f706fc3809dd400e831f989778d3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28163
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28163
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html#DW202010-003

History

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-06T16:20:12.542Z

Reserved: 2020-11-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-28163

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:33:57.682Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-16T00:15:07.313

Modified: 2025-02-06T17:15:11.807

Link: CVE-2020-28163

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-28163 - Bugzilla

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