Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29-10
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.38% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-527237
- published 4 Sep 2017
- disclosed 4 Sep 2017
Introduced: 4 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14129 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.29-10 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 read_section function in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (parse_comp_unit heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14129
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22047
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100624
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=e4f2723003859dc6b33ca0dadbc4a7659ebf1643