libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via an invalid line table in a crafted object.

The version of libdwarf installed on the remote host is prior to 20130207-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2688 advisory.

    A flaw was found in libdwarf. A possible memory leak allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file,     leading to a crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-27545)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - libdwarf: division by zero in dwarf_elf_load_headers.c leading to DoS (CVE-2019-14249)

  - libdwarf: NULL pointer dereference due to corrupt line table header (CVE-2020-28163)

  - libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via     an invalid line table in a crafted object. (CVE-2020-27545)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2784-1 advisory.

  - libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via     an invalid line table in a crafted object. (CVE-2020-27545)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
210062	Amazon Linux 2 : libdwarf (ALAS-2024-2688)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
198630	RHEL 8 : libdwarf (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196160	RHEL 7 : libdwarf (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
178009	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libdwarf (SUSE-SU-2023:2784-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2020-27545

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

critical

medium