Vulnerability CVE-2017-13757


Published: 2017-08-29   Modified: 2017-08-30

Description:
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the PLT section size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf_i386_get_synthetic_symtab in elf32-i386.c and elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab in elf64-x86-64.c.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Binutils 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100532
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22018
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=90efb6422939ca031804266fba669f77c22a274a

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