Heap-based Buffer Over-read in libbfd

CVE-2017-15020 · MEDIUM Severity

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

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

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