CVE-2017-14745

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.29 - DoS

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 59.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-190
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Sep 26, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026