CVE-2017-6965

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-03-17

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Binutils (Gnu)

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137