PT-2017-17590

CVE-2017-7226

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Published

2017-03-22

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.1
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28
Description The issue arises from the pe ILF object p function in the Binary File Descriptor library, which is part of GNU Binutils. This function is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read due to its use of the strlen function instead of strnlen, potentially causing program crashes in utilities like addr2line, size, and strings. It may also lead to information disclosure.
Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version's use of strlen instead of strnlen in the pe ILF object p function poses a significant risk.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
MGASA-2019-0169
OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3223-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10651-1
SUSE-SU-2017:3170-1
SUSE-SU-2018:3207-1
SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2
USN-4336-2
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