Description
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.
Published: 2017-10-01
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6450 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:55:33.754Z

Reserved: 2017-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14974

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-02T01:29:00.563

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-14974

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14974 - Bugzilla

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