Bug 1518595 (CVE-2017-16831) - CVE-2017-16831 binutils: Integer overflow in coffgen.c
Summary: CVE-2017-16831 binutils: Integer overflow in coffgen.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-16831
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1499310 1499311
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-29 09:36 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2026-03-02 19:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:32:19 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-29 09:36:12 UTC 
coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

Upstream issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22385

Upstream patches:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6cee897971d4d7cd37d2a686bb6d2aa3e759c8ca
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-29 09:40:07 UTC 
Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499311]


Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1499310]
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