CVE-2006-2362

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: before 2.17 — fixed in 2.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU Binutils 2.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20188
http://secunia.com/advisories/20531
http://secunia.com/advisories/20550
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932
http://secunia.com/advisories/27441
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils%40gnu.org/msg01516.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17950
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018872
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0034/

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