CVE - CVE-2017-15023

CVE-ID
CVE-2017-15023	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
read_formatted_entries in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not properly validate the format count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to concat_filename.
References
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BID:101611 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101611 GENTOO:GLSA-201801-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 MISC:https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-null-pointer-dereference-in-concat_filename-dwarf2-c/ MISC:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22200 MISC:https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c361faae8d964db951b7100cada4dcdc983df1bf
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20171004	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20171004)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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