CVE-2017-15939

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles NULL files in a .debug_line file table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-15023.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-27

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101613
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c-incomplete-fix-fo…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22205
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=a54018b72d75abf2e74bf36016702da06399c1d9