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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368375
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15996  (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 elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

CVSS Scores

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