Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.30-73.el8
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EPSS
0.44% (76th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILS-2039544
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 7 Oct 2019
Introduced: 7 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-17451 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0002/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17451
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25070
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1797
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=336bfbeb1848f4b9558456fdcf283ee8a32d7fd1
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