CVE-2017-15020
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-10-04 07:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:42
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.34% (0.71422)
Summary
dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.
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