CVE-2017-9053: Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue, also known as DW201703-005, was discovered in libdwarf 2017-03-21. A heap-based buffer over-read in _dwarf_read_loc_expr_op() is due to a failure to check a pointer for being in bounds (in a few places in this function).

Affected products

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

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