A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way certain binutils utilities processed archive files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted archive file, it could cause the utility used to process that archive 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 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |