High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-15020
CVE-2017-15020
Description
dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.
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References
1- blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/nvdPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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