CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16829
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- 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-125
Description
The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163 sourceware.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163 sourceware.org