CVE-2017-14129

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The read_section function in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (parse_comp_unit heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100624
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22047
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100624
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22047
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643

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