CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-14934

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-09-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-30
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-131, CWE-835

Description

process_debug_info in dwarf.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 (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.29

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References