CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8421
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-02
- 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])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21440 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21440 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory