Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37995

NULL pointer dereference in radare2 - CVE-2017-16359

Published: November 1, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37995

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16359

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Radare

Affected software:
radare2

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In radare 2.0.1, a pointer wraparound vulnerability exists in store_versioninfo_gnu_verdef() in libr/bin/format/elf/elf.c.

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