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CVE-2006-2362

Published: 15 May 2006

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.

Priority

Unknown

Status

Package Release Status
binutils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1)
edgy
Released (2.17-1ubuntu1)
feisty
Released (2.17-1ubuntu1)
upstream Needs triage