CVE-2017-15021: GNU Binutils

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

bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 in opncls.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 (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to bfd_getl32.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

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