The vulnerability of the `_bfd_coff_read_string_table` function in the coffgen.c component of the GNU Binutils development environment allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the bfdcoffreadstringtable function in the coffgen.c component of the GNU Binutils development environment is related to the execution of operations outside the buffer. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its...

SUSE CVE-2017-17124

The bfdcoffreadstringtable function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not properly validate the size of the external string table, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive memory consumption, ...