Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title binutils vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-292-1 First vendor Publication 2006-06-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2006-06-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04:
binutils 2.15-5ubuntu2.3
binutils-dev 2.15-5ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 5.10:
binutils 2.16.1-2ubuntu6.1
binutils-dev 2.16.1-2ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1
binutils-dev 2.16.1cvs20060117-1ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

CVE-2006-2362

Jesus Olmos Gonzalez discovered a buffer overflow in the Tektronix Hex Format (TekHex) backend of the BFD library, such as used by the 'strings' utility. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted file with 'strings' or a vulnerable third-party application using the BFD library, this could be exploited to crash the application, or possibly even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-292-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for binutils
File : nvt/sles9p5013040.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
25711 GNU Binutils libbfd Malformed TekHex Record Processing Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-292-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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