dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-04T07:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:42:22.387Z

Reserved: 2017-10-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15022

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-05T01:29:06.180

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:39:18.747

Link: CVE-2017-15022

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15022 - Bugzilla