Critical severity · published May 18, 2017
CVE-2017-9053
An issue, also known as DW201703-005, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21
9.1
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libdwarf · Libdwarf Project
2017-03-21 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9053
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9053
Third Party Advisory
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html
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