Description
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
Published: 2017-09-26
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6240 The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:01:44.242Z

Reserved: 2017-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14745

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-26T16:29:00.200

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-14745

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14745 - Bugzilla

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