cve/2017/CVE-2017-8421.md

CVE-2017-8421

Description

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/KorayAgaya/TrivyWeb
• https://github.com/Mohzeela/external-secret
• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list
• https://github.com/siddharthraopotukuchi/trivy
• https://github.com/simiyo/trivy
• https://github.com/t31m0/Vulnerability-Scanner-for-Containers
• https://github.com/umahari/security