What is CVE-2017-16805?

CVE-2017-16805 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Radare Radare2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-13.

How severe is CVE-2017-16805?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Radare Radare2

CVE-2017-16805

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-11-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Radare Radare2 — versions 2.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8813 (Issue Tracking)
github.com/radare/radare2/commit/2ca9ab45891b6ae8e32b6c28c81eebca059cbe5d (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16805?: CVE-2017-16805 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Radare Radare2, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2017-16805?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.