CVE-2017-14938

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.02% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 79.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-09-29 18:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 19:42Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-09-29

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

5ad5083cd6f1131edc6bf1d86ea3f01e3b63a154da4325dce22f0a7c9478cfad

• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166x_refsource_MISC
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=bd61e135492ecf624880e6b78e5fcde3c9716df6x_refsource_MISC
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables-elf-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com101212http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101212vdb-entryx_refsource_BID