CVE-2017-16831
N/A
Published: November 15, 2017 at 08:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:09 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (3)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22385Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-190
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