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CVE-2017-16827

CVE-2017-16827

EPSS 1.8%
The aout_get_external_symbols function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slurp_symtab invalid free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
Affected products
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References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22306https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=0301ce1486b1450f219202677f30d0fa97335419