CVE-2019-14444

Published: 30 July 2019

apply_relocations in readelf.c in GNU Binutils 2.32 contains an integer overflow that allows attackers to trigger a write access violation (in byte_put_little_endian function in elfcomm.c) via an ELF file, as demonstrated by readelf.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
binutils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.32.51.20190813-1)

	Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)	Not vulnerable (2.34-5ubuntu1)
	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)	Not vulnerable (2.34-5ubuntu1)
	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.3)
	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)	Needed
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Needed
	Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e17869db99195849826eaaf5d2d0eb2cfdd7a2a7

References

Bugs

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24829

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