Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 17, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6965
CVE-2017-6965
Description
readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
2- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02nvd
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