ubuntu · CVE-2017-14934

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Priority: low Published: 2017-09-30 01:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:58:41 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-14934 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (binutils), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 17, ignored 2, needed 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

process_debug_info in dwarf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted ELF file that contains a negative size value in a CU structure.

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