vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-12459: Security patch for binutils (ALAS-2019-1185)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2017
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Sep 30, 2022

Description

The bfd_mach_o_read_symtab_strtab function in bfd/mach-o.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted mach-o file.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutilsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-binutils-devel
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