CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6966
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21139 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21139 Exploit, Issue Tracking