CVE-2017-14974

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 1, 2017
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Oct 1, 2017

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf

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