Security Advisory

CVE-2017-6966

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-17 08:55:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:49:02
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 has a use-after-free (specifically read-after-free) error while processing multiple, relocated sections in an MSP430 binary. This is caused by mishandling of an invalid symbol index, and mishandling of state across invocations.