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CVE-2017-9053

Published: 18 May 2017

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).

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold
fix cc37d6917011733d776ae228af4e5d6abe9613c1

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
dwarfutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
disco Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
eoan Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
groovy Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
impish Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(20180129-1)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (20170416-2)
xenial Needed

yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H