Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILS-1328032
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 Nov 2018

Introduced: 30 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19932  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.