VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-14974

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-10-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references