coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-15T08:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:35:21.224Z

Reserved: 2017-11-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16831

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-15T08:29:00.500

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:40:55.720

Link: CVE-2017-16831

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-11-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-16831 - Bugzilla