Published: 29/10/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 607

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

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

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gnu binutils 2.29

elfcommc in readelf in GNU Binutils 229 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, ...

CWE-119 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101608 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438b https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-15996

CVE-2017-15996

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