High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 15, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-16831
CVE-2017-16831
Description
coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate the symbol count, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and application crash, or excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.
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