7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.5%
Buffer overflow in getsym in tekhex.c in libbfd in Free Software Foundation
GNU Binutils before 20060423, as used by GNU strings, allows
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application
crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file with a crafted
Tektronix Hex Format (TekHex) record in which the length character is not a
valid hexadecimal character.