CVE-2017-14974 Information

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file related to elf32-i386.c and 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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22163 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e70c19e3a4c26e9c1ebf0c9170d105039b56d7cf

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