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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14934: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14934: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/30/2017
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

process_debug_info in dwarf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-binutils-devel

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