Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368343
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-1000876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.32 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write binutils version 2.32 and earlier contains a Integer Overflow vulnerability in objdump, bfd_get_dynamic_reloc_upper_bound,bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_reloc that can result in Integer overflow trigger heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Local. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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