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 Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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 relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

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 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
223475	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-27545	Nessus	Misc.	medium
210062	Amazon Linux 2 : libdwarf (ALAS-2024-2688)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
178009	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libdwarf (SUSE-SU-2023:2784-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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