Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075308
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed10 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15225  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. _bfd_dwarf2_cleanup_debug_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 leak) via a crafted ELF file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1