Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-514612
- published 2 May 2017
- disclosed 2 May 2017
Introduced: 2 May 2017
CVE-2017-8421 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.28-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.