ubuntu · CVE-2017-9052

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-05-18 06:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:01:52 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9052 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dwarfutils), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 3, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.

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().

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