Denial of Service and Potential Remote Code Execution in GNU Binutils 2.29.1

CVE-2017-16832 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The pe_bfd_read_buildid function in peicode.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate size and offset values in the data dictionary, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

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