CVE-2017-16831 Information

Description

coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not validate the symbol count which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22385 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6cee897971d4d7cd37d2a686bb6d2aa3e759c8ca

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8