Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.35% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILS-1977913
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 22 Sep 2017
Introduced: 22 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-15024 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
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:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
find_abstract_instance_name in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15024
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-infinite-loop-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22187
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=52a93b95ec0771c97e26f0bb28630a271a667bd2
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=52a93b95ec0771c97e26f0bb28630a271a667bd2