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CVE-2017-6965

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Date: March 17, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6965

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6965

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6965

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6965

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-6965

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version binutils-2_29

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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