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ghsa-8jw4-p3wc-h2jp

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:56

Modified

2025-04-20 03:48

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The aout_get_external_symbols function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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CVE-2017-16827 (GCVE-0-2017-16827)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-11-15 08:00

Modified

2024-08-05 20:35

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The aout_get_external_symbols function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

References

URL

Tags

	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22306	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0301ce1486b1450f219202677f30d0fa97335419	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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