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CVE-2017-15938

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, miscalculates DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash).

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.29

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101610
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-invalid-memory-read-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22209
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1b86808a86077722ee4f42ff97f836b12420bb2a
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101610
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-invalid-memory-read-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22209
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1b86808a86077722ee4f42ff97f836b12420bb2a

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