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High · 7.3 Public exploit CVE-2006-2362 EUVD-2006-2363GHSA-vrm3-57g8-gwv8

Buffer overflow in getsym in tekhex.c in libbfd in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20060423, as used by GNU strings, allows co…

Published May 15, 2006 · Updated Jan 16, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Package: binutils Ecosystem: Debian

Description

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 binutils 2.17-1 —
Debian 13 binutils 2.17-1 —
Debian 12 binutils 2.17-1 —

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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