CVE-2017-9746: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 8.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The disassemble_bytes function in objdump.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 rae insns printing for this file during "objdump -D" execution.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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