Updated: 2023-11-04 21:03:15.897237
Description:
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | MEDIUM | 5 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | HIGH | 7.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 7.5 | HIGH | Not Vulnerable | 2021-11-02 21:02:48 | |
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 7.5 | HIGH | Not Vulnerable | 2021-11-02 21:02:48 | |
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | binutils | 2.20 | 7.5 | HIGH | Not Vulnerable | 2021-11-02 21:02:48 | |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | binutils | 2.26 | 7.5 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2021:1635459139 | 2021-11-02 21:02:48 |