UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14974

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14974
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14974.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14974
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:44:09Z
Published
2017-10-02T01:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:36:10.707213Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

The *getsynthetic_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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / binutils

Package

Name
binutils
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/binutils@2.29.1-4ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.29.1-4ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

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