VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15022

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.02%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-10-05
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

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references