CVE-2017-16827

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16827
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16827.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16827
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-11-15T08:29:00.360Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:49:18.115038849Z
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

The aoutgetexternalsymbols function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurpsymtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
90276f15379d380761fc499da2ba24cfb3c12a94
Last affected
90276f15379d380761fc499da2ba24cfb3c12a94
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.29.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.29.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.29.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.29.1
Other
binutils-2_29_1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16827.json"