CVE-2017-17121

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COFF binary in which a relocation refers to a location after the end of the to-be-relocated section.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 76th percentile

Published

2017-12-04

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22506

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-17114
• CVE-2017-17122
• CVE-2017-17113
• CVE-2017-17123
• CVE-2017-17112
• CVE-2017-17124