CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16832
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-190
Description
The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in peicode.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate size and offset values in the data dictionary, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22373 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0bb6961f18b8e832d88b490d421ca56cea16c45b sourceware.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22373 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0bb6961f18b8e832d88b490d421ca56cea16c45b sourceware.org