Integer Overflow Vulnerability in coffgen.c of GNU Binutils 2.29.1

CVE-2017-16831 · MEDIUM Severity

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

coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

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