Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16831

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-15 08:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 20:35:21

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

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