CVE-2005-1704: GNU Gdb

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library for gdb before 6.3, binutils, elfutils, and possibly other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that specifies a large number of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• GNU Gdb: up to and including 6.3

Published 2005-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.