Medium
Security advisory
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).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-13716
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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).
osv:CVE-2017-13716
Complete source record
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