Description
The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-6450 | The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T18:55:33.754Z
Reserved: 2017-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-14974
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-10-02T01:29:00.563
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-14974
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD