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CVE-2017-14940

Published: Sep 29, 2017

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

scan_unit_for_symbols in dwarf2.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 (NULL pointer dereference 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

x_refsource_MISC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-scan_unit_for_symbols-dwarf2-c/

x_refsource_MISC

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0d76029f92182c3682d8be2c833d45bc9a2068fe

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