A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way various binutils utilities processed certain files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, it could cause the utility used to process that file to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that utility.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | binutils | 2015-12-14 10:00 | ALAS-2015-620 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.6 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |