Medium
Security advisory
radare2 4.5.0 misparses DWARF information in executable files, causing a segmentation fault in parse_typedef in type_dwarf.c via a malformed DW_AT_name in the .debug_info section.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-16269
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
radare2 4.5.0 misparses DWARF information in executable files, causing a segmentation fault in parse_typedef in type_dwarf.c via a malformed DW_AT_name in the .debug_info section.
osv:CVE-2020-16269
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJET3RR6W7LAK4H6VPTMAZS24W7XYHRZ/",
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