A vulnerability has been found in GNU Binutils 2.43/2.44 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function display_info of the file binutils/bucomm.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads to memory leak. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.303151 | third party advisory vdb entry technical description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.303151 | signature vdb entry permissions required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.545773 | third party advisory vdb entry exploit |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716 | issue tracking broken link |
| https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32716#c0 | issue tracking exploit |
| https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ba6ad3a18cb26b79e0e3b84c39f707535bbc344d | patch broken link |
| https://www.gnu.org/ | product |