CVE-2017-14974 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Binutils

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference9 documents7 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.4%

top 41.34%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

GNU Binutils

Timeline

PublishedOct 2

Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.29.1-2+3

▶NVDgnu/binutils2.29

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-qcp2-5rv3-rr4w: The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-17

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OSV

CVE-2017-14974: The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-10-02

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CVEList

CVE-2017-14974: The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-10-01

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📋Vendor Advisories

Red Hat

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the *_get_synthetic_symtab functions↗2017-09-21

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Debian

CVE-2017-14974: binutils - The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library...↗2017

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💬Community

Bugzilla

CVE-2017-14974 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in the *_get_synthetic_symtab functions↗2017-10-10

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Bugzilla

CVE-2017-14529 CVE-2017-14729 CVE-2017-14745 CVE-2017-14930 CVE-2017-14932 CVE-2017-14933 CVE-2017-14934 CVE-2017-14938 CVE-2017-14939 CVE-2017-14940 CVE-2017-14974 CVE-2017-15020 CVE-2017-15021 CVE-2↗2017-10-06

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Bugzilla

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