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Medium ALAS2023-2023-093 1 CVE

Moderate: libdwarf security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-39170: A double-free vulnerability was found in libdwarf's dwarf_expand_frame_instructions() function of the dwarf_frame.c file. A carefully crafted object file could cause the 'dwarfdump' utility to do a double free in handling an error condition. This issue could cause a segmentation violation or other major error, terminating the calling application and resulting in a denial of service.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-debuginfo 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-debugsource 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-devel 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-static 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-tools 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 libdwarf-tools-debuginfo 1:0.5.0-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    libdwarf 0.4.1 has a double free in _dwarf_exec_frame_instr in dwarf_frame.c.

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-39170.html