PT-2017-19330 · None · Libdwarf

Published 2017-06-28 · Updated 2022-03-01 · CVE-2017-9998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libdwarf versions prior to 2017-06-28

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a Segmentation fault, via a crafted file. This is due to a problem in the dwarf decode s leb128 chk function in dwarf leb.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2017-06-28, update to a version released after 2017-06-28 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9998

Affected Products

Libdwarf

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465756 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9998 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9998 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9998 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9998 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/99310 · Note