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Vulnerability details: VCID-vpdw-p5fv-aaac
Vulnerability ID VCID-vpdw-p5fv-aaac
Aliases CVE-2017-14729
Summary The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14729.html
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generic_textual Low https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/25/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_bfd_x86_elf_get_synthetic_symtab-elfxx-x86-c/
rhbs low https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500233
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14729
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14729
cvssv3 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14729
generic_textual Low https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22170
generic_textual Low https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
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generic_textual Low https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
generic_textual Low https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=61e3bf5f83f7e505b6bc51ef65426e5b31e6e360
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-14729.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-14729.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14729
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/25/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_bfd_x86_elf_get_synthetic_symtab-elfxx-x86-c/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14729
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22170
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=61e3bf5f83f7e505b6bc51ef65426e5b31e6e360
1500233 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500233
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-2017-14729 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14729
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-2017-14729.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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14729
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-2017-14729
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 0.36242
EPSS Score 0.00178
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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