CVE-2017-9742: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 8.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The score_opcodes function in opcodes/score7-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.