{"id":"CVE-2017-14745","details":"The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer 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.","modified":"2026-08-28T14:01:30.242782Z","published":"2017-09-26T16:29:00.200Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1"],"references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22148"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git","events":[{"introduced":"dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830"},{"last_affected":"dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2.29"},{"last_affected":"2.29"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["2.29","binutils-2_29"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14745.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"}]}