CVE-2017-16831

Published: 15/11/2017 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: 605

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

coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

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gnu binutils 2.29.1

coffgenc in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2291, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file ...

CWE-190 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22385 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=6cee897971d4d7cd37d2a686bb6d2aa3e759c8ca https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-16831

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