CVE-2017-14974: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1% 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, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.