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CVE-2017-6965

• 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: yes
• Published: 2017-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137

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