Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403878
  • published1 May 2017
  • disclosed1 May 2017

Introduced: 1 May 2017

CVE-2017-8398  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.28-5 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.

dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash.