Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-403900
  • published2 May 2017
  • disclosed2 May 2017

Introduced: 2 May 2017

CVE-2017-8421  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 binutils to version 2.28-5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.