Improper Null Termination Affecting binutils-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-BINUTILSDEVEL-1988439
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Dec 2016

Introduced: 2 Dec 2016

CVE-2017-7227  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-170  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 binutils-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.