Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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3.79% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075227
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6969  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read while processing corrupt RL78 binaries. The vulnerability can trigger program crashes. It may lead to an information leak as well.