Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16829
The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 65.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22307
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=cf54ebff3b7361989712fd9c0128a9b255578163