CVE-2017-14939

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

5.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 92.7% 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-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

fc97b7bc47ba3879eb02a4799821b9c7dcc65c34faeb3432c418cfb730f3adf6

• www.exploit-db.com42970https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42970/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_1_byte-dwarf2-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com101216http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101216vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=515f23e63c0074ab531bc954f84ca40c6281a724x_refsource_MISC
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22169x_refsource_MISC