CVE-2017-15020

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-05

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-parse_die-dwarf1-c/
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22202
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=1da5c9a485f3dcac4c45e96ef4b7dae5948314b5