CVE-2017-17124 Information

Description

The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd) as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not properly validate the size of the external string table which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

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=22507 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b0029dce6867de1a2828293177b0e030d2f0f03c

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