Improper Input Validation Affecting binutils package, versions <2.38.50.20220627-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-BINUTILS-5675723
  • published25 Jul 2019
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1010204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 binutils to version 2.38.50.20220627-1 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:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff header field must be opened.

CVSS Base Scores

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