CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14129
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The read_section function in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (parse_comp_unit heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100624 www.securityfocus.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22047 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643 sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100624 www.securityfocus.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22047 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643 sourceware.org