Ubuntu Security Notice USN-136-1
27th May, 2005
binutils vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Tavis Ormandy found an integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor
(BFD) parser in the GNU debugger. The same vulnerable code is also
present in binutils. By tricking an user into processing a specially
crafted executable with the binutils tools (strings, objdump, nm,
readelf, etc.), an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user running the affected program.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- binutils-multiarch
- binutils
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- binutils-multiarch
- binutils
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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