CVE-2006-2362

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CVE-2006-2362

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CVE-2006-2362 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 177088 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2006:026, published Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:00:00 +0000

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CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:45:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:15 2023