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CVE-2017-16831

Published: 11/15/2017 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 11/15/2017

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (3)

bap-std clangml conf-binutils

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a <= *

References (6)