OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2006.009
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/ Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2006.009 Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA) Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.009 Advisory Published: 2008-10-06 23:02 UTC Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20060526.01 Issue First Created: 2006-05-26 Issue Last Modified: 2006-12-07 Issue Revision: 08
Subject Name: GNU Binutils Subject Summary: GNU Binary Utilities Subject Home: http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/ Subject Versions: * <= 2.16.1 Vulnerability Id: CVE-2006-2362 Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific) Attack Feasibility: run-time Attack Vector: local system Attack Impact: arbitrary code execution Description: According to a vendor bug report [0], a buffer overflow in "libbfd" of GNU Binutils [1], 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. References: [0] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584 [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Primary Package Name: binutils Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/binutils Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package: OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID binutils-2.16.1-2.4.0 OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID binutils-2.16.1-2.5.0 OpenPKG Community CURRENT binutils-2.16.1-20060101 Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package: OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID binutils-2.16.1-2.4.1 OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID binutils-2.16.1-2.5.1 OpenPKG Community CURRENT binutils-2.16.1-20060526
