Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29-9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-520662
  • published12 Sept 2017
  • disclosed12 Sept 2017

Introduced: 12 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14333  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How 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 process_version_sections function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file with invalid values of ent.vn_next, during "readelf -a" execution.