Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.28]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368489
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9955  (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. The get_build_id function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file in which a certain size field is larger than a corresponding data field, as demonstrated by mishandling within the objdump program.

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