Heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library

CVE-2017-17080 · MEDIUM Severity

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

elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo, elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.

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