CVE-2017-14940: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scan_unit_for_symbols in dwarf2.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 (NULL pointer dereference 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.