CVE-2017-17124

HIGH

GNU Binutils - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in COFF String Table Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22507
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 60.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/binutils 2.29.1
Published Dec 04, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026