CVE-2017-14729
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 25, 2017
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 25, 2017
Description
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22170
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/25/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_bfd_x86_elf_get_synthetic_symtab-elfxx-x86-c/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=61e3bf5f83f7e505b6bc51ef65426e5b31e6e360
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
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