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 :...

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...