Denial of Service and Memory Access Vulnerability in libbfd

CVE-2017-16826 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The coff_slurp_line_table function in coffcode.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

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