CVE-2017-14939
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 5.9%
from disclosure to weapon11 days
Published on NVDSep 29
1st PoC+11d
exploitation probability
5.9%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
decode_line_info in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles a length calculation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to read_1_byte.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2
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References
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_1_byte-dwarf2-c/https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22169https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=515f23e63c0074ab531bc954f84ca40c6281a724https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42970/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101216