Heap overflow

The peILFobjectp function in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read of size 4049 because it uses the strlen function instead of strnlen, leading to program crashes in several utilities such as addr2lin...

CVE-2017-7226

The peILFobjectp function in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read of size 4049 because it uses the strlen function instead of strnlen, leading to program crashes in several utilities such as addr2lin...

PT-2006-1522 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.16 Description: The issue is related to the strnlen user function in the Linux kernel, which can return an incorrect value. This allows local users to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors...