CVE-2017-15022: GNU Binutils

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

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

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