Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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2.4% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075179
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed10 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17451  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. 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.

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