What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-14974

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf

Get alerted when CVE-2017-14974 or the next vulnerability affects your stack