CVE-2017-15021

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2017-15021 · Published 05/10/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-15021 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting binutils (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
binutils gnu	`= 2.29`	No fix yet

Description

bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to bfd_getl32.

References

blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-bfd_getl32-opncls-c · Patch
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

binutils

gnu

= 2.29

No fix yet

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