Use After Free Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-BINUTILS-403747
  • published17 Mar 2017
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 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. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.