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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-17124: binutils security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 4, 2017
Added
Dec 18, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

Solutions

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