CVE-2017-15938

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

4.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 91.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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

2017-10-27 21:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-10-27

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c255cbc7547c3c13ee5aec0fcf150f12e716cc9a3b559df8e8b89669372be2b9

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1b86808a86077722ee4f42ff97f836b12420bb2ax_refsource_MISC
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-invalid-memory-read-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com101610http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101610vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22209x_refsource_MISC