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CVE-2016-9480

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

libdwarf 2016-10-21 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service by using the "malformed dwarf file" approach, related to a "Heap Buffer Over-read" issue affecting the dwarf_util.c component, aka DW201611-006.

Affected products

• Libdwarf Project Libdwarf: 2016-10-21

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94980
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/bugs/5/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/5dd64de047cd5ec479fb11fe7ff2692fd819e5e5/
• https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94980
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/bugs/5/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/5dd64de047cd5ec479fb11fe7ff2692fd819e5e5/
• https://www.prevanders.net/dwarfbug.html

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