CVE-2017-14974
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2017-14974 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2017-10-02 01:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2023-11-07 02:39:00 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-476
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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