Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (22nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-519871
- published 17 Mar 2017
- disclosed 17 Mar 2017
Introduced: 17 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-6965 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.28-3 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.
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.