16870 : binutils BFD Library Local Overflow
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Timeline

Discovery Date	Exploit Publish Date	Disclosure Date
2005-05-04	2005-05-20	2005-05-27

Time to Exploit
16 days

Description

A local overflow exists in binutils. The BFD library fails to validate user supplied input resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted file, an attacker can gain escalated privileges resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to the latest snapshot version from CVS, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. In addition, Ubuntu has released a patch for some older versions distributed by them.

Products

GNU	binutils	2.16
		2.15
		2.14
		2.13
		2.12

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 15527 15554 15875 17001 17072 17135 17257 17356 17718 18506 21122 21262 21717 24788
Related OSVDB ID: 16351 16757
CVE ID: 2005-1704 (see also: NVD)
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051002-01-U.asc http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91813
http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:095
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-05/msg00330.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-136-1
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:215
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060703-01-U.asc http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-222.pdf
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-015.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-178.htm
Other Solution URL: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/
Vendor Specific Solution URL: ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-04/0098.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=57996
Vendor URL: http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2005:659 RHSA-2005:709 RHSA-2006:0368

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Tavis Ormandy - tavisogoogle.com - Google Information Security Team

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-25 | Disagree?

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