CVE-2017-15996

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15996
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15996.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-15996
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-10-29T17:29:00.203Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:06:32.368058Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the getarchivemembername, processarchiveindexandsymbols, and setuparchive functions.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830
Last affected
dd9a28c0966d13924fbd1096a724ae334954d830
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.29"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.29"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.29
Other
binutils-2_29

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15996.json"