Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-14974
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 59.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf