CVE-2017-9052: Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue, also known as DW201703-006, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21. A heap-based buffer over-read in dwarf_formsdata() is due to a failure to check a pointer for being in bounds (in a few places in this function) and a failure in a check in dwarf_attr_list().

Affected products

• Libdwarf Project Libdwarf: version 2017-03-21 only

Published 2017-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.