Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *
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- published 28 Aug 2017
- disclosed 28 Aug 2017
Introduced: 28 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13716 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04
binutils
.
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.
The C++ symbol demangler routine in cplus-dem.c in libiberty, 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 file, as demonstrated by a call from the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd).