{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 8 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9461 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-9461 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-9461 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-9461 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Jun 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9461 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. 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