CVE-2017-14529: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pe_print_idata function in peXXigen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles HintName vector entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PE file, related to the bfd_getl16 function.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.