Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075277
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed30 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14930  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Memory leak in 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 (memory consumption) via a crafted ELF file.