CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15025
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-369
Description
decode_line_info in dwarf2.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 (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-divide-by-zero-in-decode_line_info-dwarf2-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22186 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d8010d3e75ec7194a4703774090b27486b742d48 sourceware.org
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-divide-by-zero-in-decode_line_info-dwarf2-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22186 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d8010d3e75ec7194a4703774090b27486b742d48 sourceware.org