5.5

CVE-2017-14940

EPSS 0.45%
Published 30.09.2017 01:29:02
Last modified 20.04.2025 01:37:25
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scan_unit_for_symbols in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products Warnungen 0 Metrics 3 CWE 1 References 6

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Gnu ≫ Binutils Version2.29

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	0.45%	0.628

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	5.5	1.8	3.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov	4.3	8.6	2.9	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166

Patch

Third Party Advisory

Issue Tracking

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-scan_unit_for_symbols-dwarf2-c/

Patch

Third Party Advisory

VDB Entry

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0d76029f92182c3682d8be2c833d45bc9a2068fe

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14940

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2017-14940

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14940

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