Memory Access Violation Vulnerability in GNU Binutils 2.29.1

CVE-2017-17121 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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 (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.

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