Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libdwarf-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBDWARFTOOLS-1988215
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Mar 2017

Introduced: 21 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-9053  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 libdwarf-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libdwarf-tools package and not the libdwarf-tools package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1