Out-of-bounds read in Binutils - CVE-2017-16829
Published: November 15, 2017 / Updated: February 10, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37961
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16829
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Binutils
Binutils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the elf-properties.c function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed file. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-16829
Install update from vendor's website.