Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2017-17124
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.84%
Original Filing — NVD Description
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.