{"id":"CVE-2017-15022","details":"dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.","modified":"2026-08-28T14:01:23.941368Z","published":"2017-10-05T01:29:06.180Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=11855d8a1f11b102a702ab76e95b22082cccf2f8"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-bfd_hash_hash-hash-c/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22201"}],"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-2017-15022.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:N/I:N/A:H"}]}