Upstream information

CVE-2017-9752 at MITRE

Description

bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file in the _bfd_vms_get_value and _bfd_vms_slurp_etir functions during "objdump -D" execution.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Pending

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 6.8 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Medium
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact Partial None
Integrity Impact Partial None
Availability Impact Partial Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.8 3.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector Local Network
Access Complexity Low High
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction Required Required
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High None
Integrity Impact High None
Availability Impact High Low
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1044920 [RESOLVED]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7.0 binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11 SP4 binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP2 binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA LTSS binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS binutils Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 binutils Affected