VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17125

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.75%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-04
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

nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references