CVE-2017-14934

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-131

Description

process_debug_info in dwarf.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 (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101204
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22219
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=19485196044b2521af979f1e5c4a89bfb90fba0b
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101204
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22219
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=19485196044b2521af979f1e5c4a89bfb90fba0b

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