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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29.1-2

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.07% (29th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-515110
  • published 2 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 2 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 2 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14974 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.29.1-2 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 *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.