Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : binutils vulnerability (USN-136-1)

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...

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...