Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17121

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-04 08:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:59
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.