CVE-2017-9054

critical

Published 2017-05-18 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`20170416-2`
sid	Fixed	`20170416-2`
forky	Fixed	`20170416-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`20170416-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`20170416-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libdwarf_project	libdwarf	`2017-03-21`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.