Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.30-73.el8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILS-1427524
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Oct 2019

Introduced: 7 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17451  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 binutils to version 0:2.30-73.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1797.

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 2.32. It is an integer overflow leading to a SEGV in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line in dwarf2.c, as demonstrated by nm.

CVSS Scores

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