CVE-2017-17080

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17080
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17080.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17080
Downstream
CLSA (3)
DEBIAN (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2017-11-30T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-15T10:46:38Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
90276f15379d380761fc499da2ba24cfb3c12a94
Last Affected
90276f15379d380761fc499da2ba24cfb3c12a94
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "2.29.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "2.29.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.29.1
Other
binutils-2_29_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17080.json"