CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2017-14974
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.98%
Original NVD 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.
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