What is CVE-2017-13716?

CVE-2017-13716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2017-13716?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-13716 known to be exploited?

11 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Gnu Binutils

CVE-2017-13716

The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).

EPSS: 0.014 (69.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnu Binutils — versions 2.29
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-13716?: CVE-2017-13716 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gnu Binutils, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2017-13716?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-13716 known to be exploited?: 11 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.