USN-292-1: binutils vulnerability

9 June 2006

binutils vulnerability

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CVE-2006-2362

Jesus Olmos Gonzalez discovered a buffer overflow in the Tektronix Hex
Format (TekHex) backend of the BFD library, such as used by the
'strings' utility. By tricking an user or automated system into
processing a specially crafted file with 'strings' or a vulnerable
third-party application using the BFD library, this could be exploited
to crash the application, or possibly even execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06
  • binutils-dev - 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1
  • binutils - 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 5.10
  • binutils-dev - 2.16.1-2ubuntu6.1
  • binutils - 2.16.1-2ubuntu6.1
Ubuntu 5.04
  • binutils-dev - 2.15-5ubuntu2.3
  • binutils - 2.15-5ubuntu2.3

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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