Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14529
CVE-2017-14529
Description
The pe_print_idata function in peXXigen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles HintName vector entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PE file, related to the bfd_getl16 function.
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