GLSA-200506-01 : Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200506-01 Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow Tavis Ormandy and Ned Ludd of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered an integer overflow in the BFD library and elfutils, resulting in a heap based buffer overflow. Impact :...

USN-136-1: binutils vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy found an integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor BFD parser in the GNU debugger. The same vulnerable code is also present in binutils. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted executable with the binutils tools strings, objdump, nm, readelf, etc., an attacker...

CVE-2005-1704: Undefined Security Weakness

Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library for gdb before 6.3, binutils, elfutils, and possibly other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that specifies a large number of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer...