CVE-2017-8421

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Published: 02/05/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

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

VMScore: 634

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

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

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The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcodeh in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 228, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdumpc can resolve this ...

CWE-772 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21440 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8421

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