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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.2% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368413
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16830  (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 print_gnu_property_note function in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not have integer-overflow protection on 32-bit platforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

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