CVE-2017-17124

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17124
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17124.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17124
Downstream
Published
2017-12-04T08:29:00.577Z
Modified
2026-07-09T00:52:20.500111Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The bfdcoffreadstring_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

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 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.29.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.29.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils: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-2017-17124.json"