Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: binutils security update

An updated binutils package that fixes several bugs and minor security issues is now available. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Binutils is a collection of utilities used for the creation of executable code. A number of bugs were fou...

Fedora Core 3 : binutils-2.15.92.0.2-5.1 (2005-497)

Wed Jun 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek 2.15.92.0.2-5.1 - bfd and readelf robustification CVE-2005-1704, 158680 - fix buffer overflows in readelf 149506 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

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...