Denial of Service Vulnerability in libbfd's setup_group Function

CVE-2017-13710 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The setup_group function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a group section that is too small.

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