CVE-2017-14938 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption10 documents8 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.5%

top 34.04%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

GNU Binutils

Timeline

PublishedSep 30

Latest updateMay 13

Description

_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.29.90.20180122-1+3

▶NVDgnu/binutils2.29

Patches

Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: blogs.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-c8pg-54qm-xhrp: _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf↗2022-05-13

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OSV

CVE-2017-14938: _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf↗2017-09-30

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CVEList

CVE-2017-14938: _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf↗2017-09-29

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📋Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu

GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21

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Red Hat

binutils: Excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables↗2017-09-21

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Debian

CVE-2017-14938: binutils - _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) libra...↗2017

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💬Community

Bugzilla

CVE-2017-14938 binutils: Excessive memory allocation in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables↗2017-10-10

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Bugzilla

CVE-2017-14529 CVE-2017-14729 CVE-2017-14745 CVE-2017-14930 CVE-2017-14932 CVE-2017-14933 CVE-2017-14934 CVE-2017-14938 CVE-2017-14939 CVE-2017-14940 CVE-2017-14974 CVE-2017-15020 CVE-2017-15021 CVE-2↗2017-10-06

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Bugzilla

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