Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14129
CVE-2017-14129
Description
The read_section function 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 (parse_comp_unit heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
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