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CVE-2006-2362

high · 7.3

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.

7.3
CVSS
14.5%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2006-05-15
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
gnubinutils< 2.17

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References

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