CVE-2017-15020: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.