Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.29.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368414
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-17080  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29.1, does not validate sizes of core notes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_getl32 heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted object file, related to elfcore_grok_netbsd_procinfo, elfcore_grok_openbsd_procinfo, and elfcore_grok_nto_status.

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