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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-15938

CVE-2017-15938

Description

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, miscalculates DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash).

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