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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16831: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16831: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-bcc-0-16-17-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-30-1-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-clisp-2-49-0-175-3-33-0-3-0

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