Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368388
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20671  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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 Out-of-bounds Write load_specific_debug_section in objdump.c in GNU Binutils through 2.31.1 contains an integer overflow vulnerability that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted section size.

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