NULL Pointer Dereference

Affecting binutils package, versions *

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. A Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.34, in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, as demonstrated in nm-new, that can cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for binutils.

References

• ADVISORY
• CONFIRM
• MISC
• MISC