CVE-2017-14729: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.