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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-BINUTILS-617472
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed25 Sept 2017
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

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

The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, do not ensure a unique PLT entry for a symbol, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.