Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.29]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368509
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14934  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) process_debug_info in dwarf.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 (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

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