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CVE-2017-15225

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

_bfd_dwarf2_cleanup_debug_info 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 (memory leak) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22212
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b55ec8b676ed05d93ee49d6c79ae0403616c4fb0
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22212
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b55ec8b676ed05d93ee49d6c79ae0403616c4fb0

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