PT-2017-18319 · Gnu+2 · Gnu Binutils+2

Manh-Dung Nguyen · Published 2017-05-01 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2017-8398

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28

Description The issue arises from an invalid read of size 1 during the dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary in the dwarf.c file. This causes programs like objdump and readelf, which analyze binary programs, to crash.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent programs like objdump and readelf from crashing when analyzing corrupt binaries.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8398

MGASA-2019-0169

SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1

USN-4336-2

Affected Products

Gnu Binutils

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 617

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