Ubuntu: USN-4336-2 (CVE-2017-12453): GNU binutils vulnerabilities
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/04/2017
07/24/2021
07/22/2021
03/22/2023
Description
The _bfd_vms_slurp_eeom function in libbfd.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 read via a crafted vms alpha file.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-binutils
- ubuntu-upgrade-binutils-multiarch
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