ubuntu-cve-2017-14974
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-10-02 01:29
Modified
2025-07-16 04:53
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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          },
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      },
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            }
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      "versions": []
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14974",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:53:00Z",
  "published": "2017-10-02T01:29:00Z",
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14974"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-14974"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:44:09Z"
}



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