CVE-2017-14333 (GCVE-0-2017-14333)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-12 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:20
VLAI
Summary
The process_version_sections function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file with invalid values of ent.vn_next, during "readelf -a" execution.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21990 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-09-12 00:00
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