Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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2.33% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075290
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed24 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14250  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.