NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in libbfd Library

CVE-2017-14974 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

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