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CVE-2017-16357

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In radare 2.0.1, a memory corruption vulnerability exists in store_versioninfo_gnu_verdef() and store_versioninfo_gnu_verneed() in libr/bin/format/elf/elf.c, as demonstrated by an invalid free. This error is due to improper sh_size validation when allocating memory.

Affected products

• radareorg/radare2: 2.0.1

References

• https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/0b973e28166636e0ff1fad80baa0385c9c09c53a
• https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8742
• https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/0b973e28166636e0ff1fad80baa0385c9c09c53a
• https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8742

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