Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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1.84% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075312
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed4 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17124  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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