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CVE-2017-15996

N/A
Published: October 29, 2017 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (4)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101608
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438b

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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