CVE-2017-15938 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Binutils
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 27
Latest updateMay 14
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).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6