CVE-2017-14939
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 5.9%
decode_line_info in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles a length calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to read_1_byte.
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 5.5 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 5.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 93rd percentile
- Published
- 2017-09-29
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
ExploitDB entries (1)
Security advisories
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_1_byt…
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22169
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101216