PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-08-19 16:29:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2017-12967
PublicDate: 2017-08-19 16:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12967
 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21962
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4336-2
Description:
 The getsym function in tekhex.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
 (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, allows remote attackers
 to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application
 crash) via a malformed tekhex binary.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_binutils:
 other: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=patch;h=de25939739ffe9a9ad7cec07a35bb2a1e430fe39
upstream_binutils: released (2.29-5)
precise/esm_binutils: ignored (end of ESM support, was needed)
trusty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_binutils: needed
vivid/ubuntu-core_binutils: DNE
xenial_binutils: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_binutils: released (2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
zesty_binutils: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
bionic_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
cosmic_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
disco_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
eoan_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
focal_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
groovy_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
hirsute_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
impish_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
jammy_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)
devel_binutils: not-affected (2.29-5ubuntu1)