DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9753

The versadosmkobject function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and application crash or possibly hav...

CVE-2017-9753: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The versadosmkobject function in bfd/versados.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and application crash or possibly hav...