Medium
Security advisory
libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via an invalid line table in a crafted object.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-27545
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via an invalid line table in a crafted object.
osv:CVE-2020-27545
Complete source record
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