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CVE-2017-14974

Description

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.

Priority: Medium

CVSS v3: 5.5

Component: binutils

Publish Date: Oct 1, 2017

Related ID: --

CVSS v2: Medium

Modified Date: Oct 5, 2017

Find out more about CVE-2017-14974 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

Products Affected

Product Name	Status	Defect	Fixed	Downloads
Linux
Wind River Linux LTS 17	Fixed	LIN10-2226	10.17.41.8	Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.8 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.9 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.10 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.11 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.12 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.13 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.14 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.15 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.16 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.17 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.18 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.20 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.21 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.22 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.23 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.24 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.25 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.26 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.27
Wind River Linux 8	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux 9	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux 7	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux LTS 21	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux LTS 22	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux LTS 18	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux LTS 19	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
Wind River Linux CD release	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
VxWorks
VxWorks 7	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--
VxWorks 6.9	Not Vulnerable	--	--	--

Related Products

Product Name	Status	Defect	Fixed	Downloads

Notes
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