Heap-based buffer overflow in Binutils - CVE-2017-14729
Published: September 25, 2017 / Updated: February 10, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38207
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-2017-14729
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which. A remote attacker can use a crafted ELF file to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
Binutils
How to mitigate CVE-2017-14729
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/25/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-_bfd_x86_elf_get_synthetic_symtab-elfxx-x86-c/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22170
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=56933f9e3e90eebf1018ed7417d6c1184b91db6b
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=61e3bf5f83f7e505b6bc51ef65426e5b31e6e360