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debiancveDebian Security Bug TrackerDEBIANCVE:CVE-2017-8421
HistoryMay 02, 2017 - 5:59 p.m.

CVE-2017-8421

2017-05-0217:59:00
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
7

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.5%

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.