CVE-2017-15024: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

find_abstract_instance_name 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 (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

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