Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-BINUTILS-1983551
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Nov 2017
Introduced: 28 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-17122 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:6
relevant fixed versions and status.
The dump_relocs_in_section function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not check for reloc count integer overflows, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17122
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22508
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d785b7d4b877ed465d04072e17ca19d0f47d840f
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d785b7d4b877ed465d04072e17ca19d0f47d840f