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CVE-2017-14938

Published: Sep 29, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166

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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=bd61e135492ecf624880e6b78e5fcde3c9716df6

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https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables-elf-c/

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