CVE-2017-13757 Information

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 does not validate the PLT section size which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file related to elf_i386_get_synthetic_symtab in elf32-i386.c and elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab in elf64-x86-64.c.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100532 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22018 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=90efb6422939ca031804266fba669f77c22a274a

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5