CVE-2016-5040: Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a large length value in a compilation unit header.

Affected products

• Libdwarf Project Libdwarf: from 1999-12-14, before 2016-09-23 (fixed in 2016-09-23)

Published 2017-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.