CVE-2017-9054: Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. 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.

Affected products

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

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