Improper Input Validation Affecting binutils package, versions [2.21,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368397
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-1010204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (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 Improper Input Validation. GNU binutils gold gold v1.11-v1.16 (GNU binutils v2.21-v2.31.1) is affected by: Improper Input Validation, Signed/Unsigned Comparison, Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gold/fileread.cc:497, elfcpp/elfcpp_file.h:644. The attack vector is: An ELF file with an invalid e_shoff header field must be opened.

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