CVE-2017-15021

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 79.5% 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

2017-10-04 07:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 19:42Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-10-04

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

381e0368172984f32b9b3aa9cd1a217fd057305e2c4630e3ea8da9a328db9958

• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-bfd_getl32-opncls-c/x_refsource_MISC
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22197x_refsource_MISC
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=52b36c51e5bf6d7600fdc6ba115b170b0e78e31dx_refsource_MISC