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USN-136-1: binutils vulnerability

27 May 2005

binutils vulnerability

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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.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
  • binutils-multiarch -
  • binutils -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • binutils-multiarch -
  • binutils -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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