CVE-2017-6965: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.