vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-9052: dwarfutils -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 18, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue, also known as DW201703-006, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21. A heap-based buffer over-read in dwarf_formsdata() is due to a failure to check a pointer for being in bounds (in a few places in this function) and a failure in a check in dwarf_attr_list().

Solution

debian-upgrade-dwarfutils
Title
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