CVE-2016-5041: Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dwarf_macro5.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a debugging information entry using DWARF5 and without a DW_AT_name.

Affected products

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

Published 2017-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.