Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.22% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-BINUTILS-17992714
  • published16 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Mar 2017

Introduced: 21 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest binutils to version 2.28-3 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to multiple heap-based buffer over-reads (of size 1 and size 8) while handling corrupt STABS enum type strings in a crafted object file, leading to program crash.