vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-17080: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 30, 2017
Added
Dec 18, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo, elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutilshuawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutils-devel
Title
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