Buffer overflow in Binutils - CVE-2017-6965
Published: March 17, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39447
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6965
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected software
Binutils
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-6965
Install update from vendor's website.