CVE-2017-9748: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ieee_object_p function in bfd/ieee.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, might allow 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. NOTE: this may be related to a compiler bug.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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