NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29-9
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.25% (65th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-515872
- published 27 Aug 2017
- disclosed 27 Aug 2017
Introduced: 27 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13710 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.29-9 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 setup_group function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a group section that is too small.