{"id":"CVE-2017-16805","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16805","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:37.068Z","title":"In radare2 2.0.1, libr/bin/dwarf.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to r_bin_dwarf_parse_comp_unit in dwarf.c and sdb_set_internal in shlr/sdb/src/sdb.c.","description":"In radare2 2.0.1, libr/bin/dwarf.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to r_bin_dwarf_parse_comp_unit in dwarf.c and sdb_set_internal in shlr/sdb/src/sdb.c.","published":"2017-11-13T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:09:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["radare/radare2"],"epss":{"score":0.01079,"percentile":0.64881,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.08%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/2ca9ab45891b6ae8e32b6c28c81eebca059cbe5d","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8813","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/2ca9ab45891b6ae8e32b6c28c81eebca059cbe5d","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8813","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16805","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}