CVE-2006-2362
46Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.3epss 14%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDMay 15
1st PoCMay 11
exploitation probability
14%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27856⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20188http://secunia.com/advisories/20531http://secunia.com/advisories/20550http://secunia.com/advisories/22932http://secunia.com/advisories/27441https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26644http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils%40gnu.org/msg01516.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872