CVE-2017-15938: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% 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, miscalculates DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash).

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.