NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting lief package, versions [,0.17.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.25% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LIEF-14912565
  • published11 Jan 2026
  • disclosed10 Jan 2026
  • creditoneafter

Introduced: 10 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-15504  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lief to version 0.17.2 or higher.

Overview

lief is a LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in the Parser::parse_binary() function. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a null pointer dereference through local access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1