CVE-2017-17124

7.8 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.8) in gnu binutils. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2017-12-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507

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