Published: 30/09/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 435

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

decode_line_info in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles a length calculation, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to read_1_byte.

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gnu binutils 2.29

Source: blogsgentooorg/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_1_byte-dwarf2-c/ Description: binutils is a set of tools necessary to build programs The complete ASan output of the issue: # nm -A -a -l -S -s --special-syms --synthetic --with-symbol-versions -D $FILE ==3235==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overfl ...

CWE-125 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22169 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_1_byte-dwarf2-c/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101216 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42970/https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=515f23e63c0074ab531bc954f84ca40c6281a724 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42970/

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