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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-BINUTILS-5675729
  • published22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed22 Mar 2017

Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7223  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 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:13 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.