Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions <2.29-5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.49% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-BINUTILS-403709
- published 19 Aug 2017
- disclosed 19 Aug 2017
Introduced: 19 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12967 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
binutils
to version 2.29-5 or higher.
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:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
The getsym function in tekhex.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 (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.