CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-15020

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library in GNU Binutils 2.29 has a pointer mishandling issue in dwarf1.c, which may lead to application crashes or unspecified other impacts via a crafted ELF file.

Risk Assessment

Remote attackers may exploit this vulnerability to cause application crashes, potentially leading to service availability interruptions within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of GNU Binutils to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for suspicious ELF files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS