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LIN8-6673 : Security Advisory - binutils - CVE-2017-8421

Created: May 14, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Oct 22, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.17
Fix Version: 8.0.0.23
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, 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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8421

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