CVE-2017-14974

MEDIUM

GNU Binutils - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule

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)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-476
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Oct 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026