CVE-2017-13716: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.