Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions *


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.19% (56th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-BINUTILS-337977
  • published 24 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 24 Feb 2019

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in elf_read_notes in elf.c.