CVE-2017-14974

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14974
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-02 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThe *_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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Binutils 2.29 All All All
Application Gnu Binutils 2.29 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit sourceware.org
sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit CONFIRM sourceware.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
22163 – null pointer dereference in elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab, elf64-x86-64.c:6945 in binutils 2.29.1 CONFIRM sourceware.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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