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Vulnerability details: VCID-w37j-3ak9-eyhy
Vulnerability ID VCID-w37j-3ak9-eyhy
Aliases CVE-2017-14938
Summary binutils: Excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
System Score Found at
cvssv3 3.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-14938.json
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
epss 0.00499 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
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 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14938
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14938
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-14938.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-14938
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables-elf-c/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14938
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=bd61e135492ecf624880e6b78e5fcde3c9716df6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101212
1500339 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500339
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-2017-14938 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14938
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-2017-14938.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

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physical

low

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none

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unchanged

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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

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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

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physical

low

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none

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unchanged

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Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14938
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

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none

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14938
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 0.65852
EPSS Score 0.00499
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T14:28:41.954068+00:00 RedHat Importer Import https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-14938.json 38.0.0