CVE-2017-17125
N/A
Published: December 4, 2017 at 08:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22443Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125
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