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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6759: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-6759: Vulnerability in GNU binary utilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/06/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

The bfd_get_debug_link_info_1 function in opncls.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, has an unchecked strnlen operation. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted ELF 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
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-i386-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-developer-gnu-binutils-cross-sparc-2-32-0-11-4-9-0-1-1-0

References

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