CVE-2017-15939

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.29

Description The issue is related to the handling of NULL files in a .debug line file table in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library, which can cause a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereference and application crash when processing a crafted ELF file. This is related to the concat filename function.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.29, consider updating to a newer version that includes a complete fix for this issue, as the current version contains an incomplete fix.