Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37962

Integer overflow in Binutils - CVE-2017-16830

Published: November 15, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37962

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16830

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The print_gnu_property_note function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not have integer-overflow protection on 32-bit platforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected software

Binutils
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-16830

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101941
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22384
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6ab2c4ed51f9c4243691755e1b1d2149c6a426f4

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