CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17124
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-04
- 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
The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.29.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c sourceware.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c sourceware.org