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CVE-2006-2362

HIGH
7.3
CVSS Score
Published: May 15, 2006 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBinutils

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Severity
HIGH7.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 14%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Binutils· Gnu
95%
v < 2.17
Affected range stops below 2.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (16)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Oct/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/20188
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/20531
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/20550
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27441
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-binutils%40gnu.org/msg01516.html

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.3HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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