Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16357",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-16357",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:24:21.509097569Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/radare/radare2/commit/0b973e28166636e0ff1fad80baa0385c9c09c53a",
        "https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/8742"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387628,
  "published_at": "2017-11-01T17:29:00.387+00:00"
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