CVE-2017-17080: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo, elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29.1 only

Published 2017-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.