Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.24% (65th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-BINUTILS-403911
- published 15 Nov 2017
- disclosed 15 Nov 2017
Introduced: 15 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-16828 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
The display_debug_frames function in dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and heap-based buffer over-read, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file, related to print_debug_frame.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16828
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22386
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=bf59c5d5f4f5b8b4da1f5f605cfa546f8029b43d
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16828
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=bf59c5d5f4f5b8b4da1f5f605cfa546f8029b43d