CVE-2006-2362

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 v3.1

7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v2.0

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

14.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2006-05-15

Updated

2025-01-16

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27856

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-2361
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