Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.29]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368366
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandles pointers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to parse_die and parse_line_table, as demonstrated by a parse_die heap-based buffer over-read.

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