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Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29.1-2

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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EPSS
0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-404155
  • published25 Sept 2017
  • disclosed25 Sept 2017
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable binutils to version 2.29.1-2 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.

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.