Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 2, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-14974
CVE-2017-14974
Description
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
Affected products
18- osv-coords15 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 2.37-1.3+ 14 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.37-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
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