vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17123: binutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 4, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The coff_slurp_reloc_table function in coffcode.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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted COFF based file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-binutils
Title
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