Use After Free Affecting binutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368508
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for binutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. In GNU Binutils 2.31.1, there is a use-after-free in the error function in elfcomm.c when called from the process_archive function in readelf.c via a crafted ELF file.

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