Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.14% (49th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-349060
- published 7 Dec 2018
- disclosed 7 Dec 2018
Introduced: 7 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-19932 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
binutils
to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19932
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19932
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19932
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-01
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23932
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=beab453223769279cc1cef68a1622ab8978641f7
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0004/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106144
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=beab453223769279cc1cef68a1622ab8978641f7