Out-of-bounds read in Binutils - CVE-2017-17125

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Out-of-bounds read in Binutils - CVE-2017-17125

Published: December 4, 2017 / Updated: February 10, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37862
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17125
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.


Affected software

Binutils
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-17125

Install update from vendor's website.


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