Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.33.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.48% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368436
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.33.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound apply_relocations in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.32 contains an integer overflow that allows attackers to trigger a write access violation (in byte_put_little_endian function in elfcomm.c) via an ELF file, as demonstrated by readelf.

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CVSS Base Scores

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