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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-12459: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-12459: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-bcc-0-16-17-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-30-1-0-175-3-33-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-runtime-clisp-2-49-0-175-3-33-0-3-0

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