CVE-2017-17122

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-12-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The dump_relocs_in_section function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not check for reloc count integer overflows, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation, or heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PE file.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.29.1

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22508
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d785b7d4b877ed465d04072e17ca19d0f47d840f
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22508
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d785b7d4b877ed465d04072e17ca19d0f47d840f

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