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, ...

CVE-2017-17124

The CVE-2017-17124 entry concerns GNU Binutils' Binary File Descriptor (libbfd) in Binutils 2.29.1. The _bfd_coff_read_string_table function in coffgen.c does not properly validate the size of the external string table, enabling a crafted COFF binary to cause denial of service through excessive m...