=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-136-1 May 27, 2005 binutils vulnerability CAN-2005-1704 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: binutils binutils-multiarch The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.14.90.0.7-8ubuntu0.2 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 2.15-5ubuntu2.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Tavis Ormandy found an integer overflow in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) parser in the GNU debugger. The same vulnerable code is also present in binutils. By tricking an user into processing a specially crafted executable with the binutils tools (strings, objdump, nm, readelf, etc.), an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected program.