CVE-2006-2362: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• GNU Binutils: before 2.17 (fixed in 2.17)

Published 2006-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.