PT-2017-18674 · Gnu · Libdwarf

Published 2017-05-18 · Updated 2022-03-01 · CVE-2017-9055

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libdwarf (affected versions not specified)

Description A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the dwarf formsdata() function due to unchecked data types, leading to an out-of-bounds access.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9055

Affected Products

Libdwarf

References · 9

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9055 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9055 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html · Note
• https://prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html#DW201703-001 · Note