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CVE-2017-9054 (GCVE-0-2017-9054)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-18 06:13 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:55
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2017-05-18 00:00
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