NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.27.51.20161201-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (58th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-BINUTILS-522674
- published 22 Mar 2017
- disclosed 22 Mar 2017
Introduced: 22 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-7225 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
binutils
to version 2.27.51.20161201-1 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.
The find_nearest_line function in addr2line in GNU Binutils 2.28 does not handle the case where the main file name and the directory name are both empty, triggering a NULL pointer dereference and an invalid write, and leading to a program crash.