CVE-2017-14130: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _bfd_elf_parse_attributes function in elf-attrs.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_attr_strdup heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.