CVE-2017-17125: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.29.1 only

Published 2017-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.