CVE-2017-15020

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule

Description

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 56.6%
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-125
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Oct 05, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026