CVE-2017-9053

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.htmlThird Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 18, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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