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CVE-2016-5027

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5027 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in libdwarf versions prior to 20160115, allowing remote attackers to crash the application by processing a specially crafted ELF file. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) to open the malicious file, but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2016-01-15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libdwarf_project:libdwarf:2016-01-15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libdwarf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5027Low

libdwarf: Null pointer dereference in _dwarf_decode_s_leb128

May 24, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/24/1
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory