CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-2362
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils (< 2.17)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20188 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20531 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20550 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27441 Third Party Advisory
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils%40gnu.org/msg01516.html Issue Tracking, Mailing List
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/ Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-292-1 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1924 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3665 Permissions Required
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26644 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20188 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20531 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20550 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27441 Third Party Advisory
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils%40gnu.org/msg01516.html Issue Tracking, Mailing List
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/ Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-292-1 Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1924 Permissions Required
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3665 Permissions Required
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26644 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry