CVE-2017-13757

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the PLT section size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf_i386_get_synthetic_symtab in elf32-i386.c and elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab in elf64-x86-64.c.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-29

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100532
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22018
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=90efb6422939ca031804266fba669f77c22a274a