Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8421

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-05-02 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 16:34:23

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

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