{"id":"CVE-2017-15020","details":"dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.","modified":"2026-08-28T08:19:20.442449Z","published":"2017-10-05T01:29:06.103Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830"},{"last_affected":"dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2.29"},{"last_affected":"2.29"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["2.29","binutils-2_29"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15020.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}