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CVE-2017-15020
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-05T01:29:06.103 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:07:08.867

Summary

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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