Published: 05/10/2017 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: 383

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

read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename.

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read_formatted_entries in dwarf2c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 229, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename ...

CWE-476 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2017-15023

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