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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-14250: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-14250: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/24/2019
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
03/03/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. simple_object_elf_match in simple-object-elf.c does not check for a zero shstrndx value, leading to an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

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