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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368426
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7299  (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. The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an invalid read (of size 8) because the code to emit relocs (bfd_elf_final_link function in bfd/elflink.c) does not check the format of the input file before trying to read the ELF reloc section header. The vulnerability leads to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

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