CVE-2017-14745

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Denial of Service via Crafted ELF File in BFD Library

Title source: llm

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22148

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 60.0%

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 26, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026