Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.29]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368485
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, miscalculates DW_FORM_ref_addr die refs in the case of a relocatable object file, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (find_abstract_instance_name invalid memory read, segmentation fault, and application crash).

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