CVE-2017-15023

Description

read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename.

References

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3