UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17124

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17124

    Published: 4 Dec 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-17124
    Aliases:
    USN-4336-2

    Summary:

    Details: The _bfd_coff_read_string_table 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, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COFF binary.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17124, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17124

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: binutils

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm8?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
    2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1
    2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High