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

CVE-2017-17125 · MEDIUM Severity

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

nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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