NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (31st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-BINUTILS-404007
- published 30 Sep 2017
- disclosed 30 Sep 2017
Introduced: 30 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14940 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
scan_unit_for_symbols 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 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14940
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/26/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-scan_unit_for_symbols-dwarf2-c/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22166
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0d76029f92182c3682d8be2c833d45bc9a2068fe
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14940
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0d76029f92182c3682d8be2c833d45bc9a2068fe