Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.29% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-403836
- published 4 Dec 2017
- disclosed 4 Dec 2017
Introduced: 4 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17126 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The load_debug_section function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an ELF file that lacks section headers.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17126
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22510
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f425ec6600b69e39eb605f3128806ff688137ea8
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17126
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=f425ec6600b69e39eb605f3128806ff688137ea8