Numeric Errors Affecting binutils package, versions <2.22-8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.3% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403774
  • published5 Sept 2012
  • disclosed5 Sept 2012

Introduced: 5 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-3509  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.22-8 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.

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) _objalloc_alloc function in objalloc.c and (2) objalloc_alloc macro in include/objalloc.h in GNU libiberty, as used by binutils 2.22, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the "addition of CHUNK_HEADER_SIZE to the length," which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Scores

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