Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.25.90.20151125-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-404123
  • published21 Mar 2017
  • disclosed21 Mar 2017

Introduced: 21 Mar 2017

CVE-2014-9939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.25.90.20151125-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

ihex.c in GNU Binutils before 2.26 contains a stack buffer overflow when printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects.

CVSS Scores

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