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Debian: CVE-2017-9054: dwarfutils -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-9054: dwarfutils -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/18/2017
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

An issue, also known as DW201703-002, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21. In _dwarf_decode_s_leb128_chk() a byte pointer was dereferenced just before it was checked for being in bounds, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-dwarfutils

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