Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368383
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14333  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.30 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. The process_version_sections function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Integer Overflow, and hang because of a time-consuming loop) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file with invalid values of ent.vn_next, during "readelf -a" execution.

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