CVE-2017-9054

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.7%

Critical (9.8) in libdwarf project libdwarf. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 77% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-05-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libdwarf_project:libdwarf

References

https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html
https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html

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