CVE-2024-53589

Publication date 5 December 2024

Last updated 20 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

GNU objdump 2.43 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the BFD (Binary File Descriptor) library's handling of tekhex format files.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
binutils	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

binutils isn't safe for untrusted inputs.

only affected 2.43, introduced in: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=8b5a212495

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Package	Patch details
binutils	Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=e0323071916878e0634a6e24d8250e4faff67e88