CVE-2017-15020
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.022 · 82 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.8
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affected products (7)
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references (11)
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- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202cnnvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.2483cnnvd
- https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/Patchcnnvd
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/enisa_euvd
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202enisa_euvd
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5enisa_euvd
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