CVE-2017-14974

The getsyntheticsymtab 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...

CVE-2017-14974

CVE-2017-14974 affects the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library in GNU Binutils 2.29. The _get_synthetic_symtab functions mishandle the failure of a canonicalization step, which can trigger a NULL pointer dereference when processing crafted ELF files. This results in a denial of service (applicat...

Integer overflow

The getsyntheticsymtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, interpret a -1 value as a sorting count instead of an error flag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow and application crash or possib...