Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.28]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368362
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. The find_nearest_line function in objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid write (of size 1) while disassembling a corrupt binary that contains an empty function name, leading to a program crash.

CVSS Scores

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