CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-15023
Medium (5.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:binutils
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf