ubuntu · CVE-2017-14940

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Priority: low Published: 2017-09-30 01:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:58:41 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-14940 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (binutils), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 2, released 2, needed 1.

Description:

scan_unit_for_symbols in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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