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CVE-2017-6965 - log back

CVE-2017-6965 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Local
Type	+ Arbitrary code execution
Description	+ A vulnerability was found in the readelf utility; part of binutils. A crafted ELF executable or shared library could cause readelf to write arbitrary locations on the heap while processing relocations, leading to a crash or potential code execution.
References	+ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21137 + https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=03f7786e2f440b9892b1c34a58fb26222ce1b493
Notes	+ Fixed in 2.29