CVE-2017-14333

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Denial of Service via Crafted Binary File in readelf

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The process_version_sections function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file with invalid values of ent.vn_next, during "readelf -a" execution.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21990

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 51.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils 2.29
Published Sep 12, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026