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Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.27.51.20161212-1

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.1% (41st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-514928
  • published 22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed 22 Mar 2017
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Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7223 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 binutils to version 2.27.51.20161212-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU assembler in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow (of size 1) while attempting to unget an EOF character from the input stream, potentially leading to a program crash.