CVE-2006-2362
Buffer overflow in getsym in tekhex.c in libbfd in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20060423, as used by GNU strings, allows…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 14.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- GNU BinUtils 2.1x - Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27856dos, linuxpublished 11 May 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.5% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References16
- 20188 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20550 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 27441 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 2006-0034 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- 17950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [bug-binutils] 20060418 [Bug binutils/2584] New: SIGSEGV in strings tool when the file is crafted. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3665 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1018872 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20531 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-292-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-10-30 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- binutils-libbfd-bo(26644) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2584 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-2363 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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