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Vulnerability details: VCID-r8bp-9ajm-aaad
Vulnerability ID VCID-r8bp-9ajm-aaad
Aliases CVE-2017-15020
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15020.html
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generic_textual Low https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/
rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500372
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15020
cvssv2 5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3 5.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15020
cvssv3 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15020
archlinux High https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-435
generic_textual Low https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-15020.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15020.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-15020
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15020
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
1500372 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500372
AVG-435 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-435
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-15020 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15020
USN-4336-2 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-2/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-15020.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15020
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15020
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.31909
EPSS Score 0.00148
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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