Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368433
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17360  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. a heap-based buffer over-read in bfd_getl32 in libbfd.c allows an attacker to cause a denial of service through a crafted PE file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable objdump.

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