CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15023
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- 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-476
Description
read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611 www.securityfocus.com
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611 www.securityfocus.com
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/ Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf sourceware.org