Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions <2.32.51.20190707-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.14% (50th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-532984
- published 7 Dec 2018
- disclosed 7 Dec 2018
Introduced: 7 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-19931 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.32.51.20190707-1 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.
An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in bfd_elf32_swap_phdr_in in elfcode.h because the number of program headers is not restricted.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19931
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19931
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23942
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19931
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5f60af5d24d181371d67534fa273dd221df20c07