Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <2.33-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.31% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-BINUTILS-17992896
  • published16 Jul 2026
  • disclosed24 Jul 2019

Introduced: 24 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14250  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest binutils to version 2.33-1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1