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Numeric Errors Affecting binutils package, versions <2.22-8

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.3% (90th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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6.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-522512
  • published 5 Sep 2012
  • disclosed 5 Sep 2012
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Introduced: 5 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-3509 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-189 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.22-8 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.

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) _objalloc_alloc function in objalloc.c and (2) objalloc_alloc macro in include/objalloc.h in GNU libiberty, as used by binutils 2.22, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the "addition of CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE to the length," which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.