Bug 1449555 (CVE-2017-8421) - CVE-2017-8421 binutils: Memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file
Summary: CVE-2017-8421 binutils: Memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-8421
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-05-10 09:07 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-10 09:09:25 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-10 09:07:03 UTC 
The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21440
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