Published: 04/12/2017 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

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

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gnu binutils 2.29.1

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgenc in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2291, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and applicati ...

CWE-119 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-17124

CVE-2017-17124

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