CVE-2017-14938: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.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 (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

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