Gentoo: 200506-01 Normal: Binutils and Elfutils Code Execution Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Binutils, elfutils: Buffer overflow Date: June 01, 2005 Bugs: #91398, #91817 ID: 200506-01

Synopsis ======= Various utilities from the GNU Binutils and elfutils packages are vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library, to do low-level manipulation. Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects.
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