Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 28, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-13716
CVE-2017-13716
Description
The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).
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