Published: 26/06/2019 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An issue exists in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in _bfd_doprnt in bfd.c because elf_object_p in elfcode.h mishandles an e_shstrndx section of type SHT_GROUP by omitting a trailing '\0' character.

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opensuse leap 15.1
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canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils ...

CWE-125 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24689 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108903 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-39 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00078.html https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=890f750a3b053532a4b839a2dd6243076de12031 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1/

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