Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.24% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-BINUTILS-404174
- published 5 Oct 2017
- disclosed 5 Oct 2017
Introduced: 5 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15021 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9
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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to bfd_getl32.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15021
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/10/03/binutils-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-bfd_getl32-opncls-c/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22197
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=52b36c51e5bf6d7600fdc6ba115b170b0e78e31d
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15021
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=52b36c51e5bf6d7600fdc6ba115b170b0e78e31d