Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils. Please review the CVE identifiers...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in GNU Binutils affect IBM Netezza Platform Software clients.

Summary GNU Binutils is used by IBM Netezza Platform Software. IBM Netezza Platform Software has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-17450 DESCRIPTION: GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite recursion in findabstractinstance in...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1743)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1743)

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The bfdgenericreadminisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU...

USN-4336-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-4336-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4336-1 advisory. It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a...

USN-4336-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2018-12698

demangletemplate in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows attackers to trigger excessive memory consumption aka OOM during the "Create an array for saving the template argument values" XNEWVEC call. This can occur during execution of objdump...

CVE-2018-19932

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. There is an integer overflow and infinite loop caused by the ISCONTAINEDBYLMA macro in elf.c...

CVE-2018-20623

In GNU Binutils 2.31.1, there is a use-after-free in the error function in elfcomm.c when called from the processarchive function in readelf.c via a crafted ELF file...

CVE-2018-17985

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption problem caused by the cplusdemangletype function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving many 'P' characters...

CVE-2018-18483

The getcount function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service malloc called with the result of an integer-overflowing calculation or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2018-20673

The demangletemplate function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, contains an integer overflow vulnerability for "Create an array for saving the template argument values" that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by nm...

CVE-2018-18309

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in readreloc in reloc.c. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service, a...

CVE-2018-18700

An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. There is a stack consumption vulnerability resulting from infinite recursion in the functions dname, dencoding, and dlocalname in cp-demangle.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to...

CVE-2018-20657

The demangletemplate function in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31.1, has a memory leak via a crafted string, leading to a denial of service memory consumption, as demonstrated by cxxfilt, a related issue to CVE-2018-12698...

CVE-2018-18605

A heap-based buffer over-read issue was discovered in the function secmergehashlookup in merge.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, because bfdaddmergesection mishandles section merges when size is not a multiple of entsize. A specially...

CVE-2018-17358

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in bfdstabsectionfindnearestline in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted E...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2020-1205)

According to the versions of the binutils package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The dumprelocsinsection function in objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 does not check for reloc count integer overflows...

CVE-2018-7568

An integer wraparound has been discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library distributed in GNU Binutils up to version 2.30. An attacker could cause a crash by providing an ELF file with corrupted DWARF debug information...