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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075234
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6965  (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 readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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