Resource Management Errors Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368368
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (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 Resource Management Errors. The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading to a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by nm.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1