Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [0,2.30)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368461
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13757  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the PLT section size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf_i386_get_synthetic_symtab in elf32-i386.c and elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab in elf64-x86-64.c.

CVSS Base Scores

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