CVE-2017-14974

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in BFD Library

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils 2.29
Published Oct 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026