CVE-2006-2362 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20188 http://secunia.com/advisories/20531 http://secunia.com/advisories/20550 http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 http://secunia.com/advisories/27441 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584 http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils@gnu.org/msg01516.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-292-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1924 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3665 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26644