Heap-based Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.29

Heap-based Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.29

CVE-2017-13757 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the PLT section size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf_i386_get_synthetic_symtab in elf32-i386.c and elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab in elf64-x86-64.c.

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