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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2362

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 17950

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950

External Source: MLIST

Name: [bug-binutils] 20060418 [Bug binutils/2584] New: SIGSEGV in strings tool when the file is crafted.

Hyperlink:http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils@gnu.org/msg01516.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584

Hyperlink:http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584

External Source: XF

Name: binutils-libbfd-bo(26644)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26644

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-292-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-292-1

External Source: TRUSTIX

Name: 2006-0034

Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018872

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2006:026

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3665

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3665

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1924

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1924

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27441

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27441

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22932

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22932

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20550

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20550

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20531

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20531

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20188

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20188

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-10-30

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html