Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075283
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed15 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound 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.

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