Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.31.1)


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-2368475
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19932  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.31.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the IS_CONTAINED_BY_LMA macro in elf.c.

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