CVE-2017-17124 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2017-17124 Interim 1 3 2021-06-09T13:07:34Z current 2021-05-30T14:04:35Z 2021-06-09T13:07:34Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2017-17124 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. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings 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. CVE-2017-17124 moderate 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L