Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17080

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-30 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:59
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo, elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.