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ubuntu-cve-2017-9053

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-05-18 06:29

Modified

2026-04-22 07:38

Summary

Details

An issue, also known as DW201703-005, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21. A heap-based buffer over-read in _dwarf_read_loc_expr_op() is due to a failure to check a pointer for being in bounds (in a few places in this function).

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9053	REPORT
	https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html#DW201703-005	REPORT
	https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9053	REPORT

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            "binary_version": "20120410-2+deb7u2build0.16.04.1"
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CVE-2017-9053 (GCVE-0-2017-9053)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-18 06:13 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:55

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2017-05-18 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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ubuntu-cve-2017-9053

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2017-9053 (GCVE-0-2017-9053)

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