vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-8421: binutils security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2017
Added
Mar 16, 2018
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

Solutions

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