CVE-2017-15996: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29 only

Published 2017-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.