High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14729
CVE-2017-14729
Description
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
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References
2- blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/25/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_bfd_x86_elf_get_synthetic_symtab-elfxx-x86-c/nvdPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
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