#VU38170 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils - CVE-2017-14938 

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#VU38170 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Binutils - CVE-2017-14938

Published: September 30, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38170
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14938
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Binutils
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

_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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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