CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1704

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library for gdb before 6.3, binutils, elfutils, and possibly other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object file that specifies a large number of section headers, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• gnu gdb (<= 6.3)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References