Resource Management Errors Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368384
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. _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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1