Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
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- published30 Sept 2017
- disclosed30 Sept 2017
Introduced: 30 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14938 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 binutils to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14938
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14938
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-memory-allocation-failure-in-_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables-elf-c/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=bd61e135492ecf624880e6b78e5fcde3c9716df6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101212
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=bd61e135492ecf624880e6b78e5fcde3c9716df6