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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-15996: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-15996: binutils security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/29/2017
Created
08/17/2019
Added
08/16/2019
Modified
08/16/2019

Description

elfcomm.c in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file that triggers a "buffer overflow on fuzzed archive header," related to an uninitialized variable, an improper conditional jump, and the get_archive_member_name, process_archive_index_and_symbols, and setup_archive functions.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-binutils-devel

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