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Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.30-73.el8

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.32% (71st percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
4 medium
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Red Hat
4.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-2039544
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 7 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 7 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17451 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-190 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 binutils to version 0:2.30-73.el8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.