Denial of Service Vulnerability in BFD Library (libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.29

Denial of Service Vulnerability in BFD Library (libbfd) in GNU Binutils 2.29

CVE-2017-14938 · MEDIUM Severity

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

_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables 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 (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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