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CVE-2017-14974

CVE-2017-14974 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.37% · 58.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.37%
58.9th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSbinutils0

Timeline

  • Oct 1, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
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