CVE-2017-14974 | BDVDB-2026-91092 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

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

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-10-01Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-16Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.