Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-6966
CVE-2017-6966
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.
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Affected products
22- osv-coords21 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/binutils&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/binutils&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cross-ppc-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cross-spu-binutils&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 2.37-1.3+ 20 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.37-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.31-9.26.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.29.1-9.20.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue Tracking
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02nvd
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