5.5

CVE-2017-15939

EPSS 0.34%
Published 27.10.2017 21:29:00
Last modified 20.04.2025 01:37:25
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dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles NULL files in a .debug_line file table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15023.

Affected products Warnungen 0 Metrics 3 CWE 1 References 8

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	0.34%	0.556

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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101613

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2017-15023/

Patch

Third Party Advisory

Issue Tracking

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22205

Patch

Third Party Advisory

Issue Tracking

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=a54018b72d75abf2e74bf36016702da06399c1d9

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15939

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2017-15939

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15939

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