CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15996
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101608 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438b sourceware.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101608 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438b sourceware.org