CVE-2017-14745: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% 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, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer 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 2017-09-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.