Use After Free Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-403751
- published 17 Mar 2017
- disclosed 17 Mar 2017
Introduced: 17 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-6966 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.
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.