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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14938: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14938: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/30/2017
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

Description

_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.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 (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutils-devel

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