Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-525795
- published 15 Jan 2019
- disclosed 15 Jan 2019
Introduced: 15 Jan 2019
CVE-2018-20712 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Debian:11
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
A heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function d_expression_1 in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1. A crafted input can cause segmentation faults, leading to denial-of-service, as demonstrated by c++filt.