CVE-2017-14934: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

process_debug_info in dwarf.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 (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.