Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29

CVE-2017-15996 · MEDIUM Severity

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

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

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