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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-16829

CVE-2017-16829

Description

The _bfd_elf_parse_gnu_properties function in elf-properties.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not prevent negative pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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