Out-of-bounds read in libdwarf - CVE-2017-9053
Published: May 18, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38974
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9053
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: David Anderson
Affected software:
libdwarf
libdwarf
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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).
How to mitigate CVE-2017-9053
Install update from vendor's website.