Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw64-binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MINGW64BINUTILS-1330874
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 Jun 2019

Introduced: 17 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mingw64-binutils package and not the mingw64-binutils package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in _bfd_doprnt in bfd.c because elf_object_p in elfcode.h mishandles an e_shstrndx section of type SHT_GROUP by omitting a trailing '\0' character.