Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403395
  • published21 Mar 2017
  • disclosed21 Mar 2017

Introduced: 21 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to multiple heap-based buffer over-reads (of size 1 and size 8) while handling corrupt STABS enum type strings in a crafted object file, leading to program crash.