CVE-2017-6966

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

1%p62

Published

Mar 17, 2017 (Mar 17, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.

Vendors: gnu
Products: binutils
Weakness: CWE-416
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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