CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-15024.md

CVE-2017-15024

Description

find_abstract_instance_name in dwarf2.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 recursion and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-infinite-loop-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-infinite-loop-in-find_abstract_instance_name-dwarf2-c/

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list