CVE-2017-6965

medium

Description

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-17

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H