Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.28]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368402
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 May 2017

CVE-2017-9038  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Read. GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to the byte_get_little_endian function in elfcomm.c, the get_unwind_section_word function in readelf.c, and ARM unwind information that contains invalid word offsets.

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