VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14745

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-09-26
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Primary references