Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075282
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.

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