CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.3. Its EPSS score suggests a 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2006-2362
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
EPSS
14.49%
Original NVD 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.