CVE-2017-16829
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-15 08:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:35
Severity ?
Summary
The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163
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