THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2362
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2362

Binutils vulnerability

CVSS
7.3
EPSS
14.5%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Gnu
Affected product
Binutils
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2006-05-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gnu Binutils is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2362.
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