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CVE-2017-17125
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-04T08:29:00.623 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:10:22.743

Summary

nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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