CVE-2017-6966: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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