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CVE-2017-14933

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-14933 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the GNU Binutils 2.29 BFD library. A remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by providing a specially crafted ELF file, leading to system unavailability. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and high impact on availability, requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0127 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils220
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: binutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-14933Low

binutils: Infinite loop in read_formatted_entries

Sep 26, 2017

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-17
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
securityfocus.com / bid/101203