Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29.90.20180122-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.5% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-519910
- published 4 Dec 2017
- disclosed 4 Dec 2017
Introduced: 4 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17125 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.29.90.20180122-1 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.
nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.