{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.28-3 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.28-3","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.28-3"],"id":"tcs_01M5NCJ9PJK238XHCBXDGPBWRV","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:49.529210691Z","published_at":"2017-03-17T09:59:00.350Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6965","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6965"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6965#Debian:14/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6965"}],"summary":"readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 writes to illegal addresses while processing corrupt input files containing symbol-difference relocations, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow."}