Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-403343
- published 19 Jun 2017
- disclosed 19 Jun 2017
Introduced: 19 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9742 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
binutils
to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:16.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
The score_opcodes function in opcodes/score7-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution.