cve/2017/CVE-2017-15938.md

CVE-2017-15938

Description

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, miscalculates DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash).

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/24/binutils-invalid-memory-read-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/

Github

• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list
• https://github.com/mudongliang/LinuxFlaw
• https://github.com/oneoy/cve-