NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.12% (45th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-529967
- published 21 Mar 2017
- disclosed 21 Mar 2017
Introduced: 21 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-7209 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.28-3 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 dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.