Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075184
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed19 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds opcodes/i386-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not consider the number of registers for bnd mode, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution.

CVSS Base Scores

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