Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-BINUTILS-403691
  • published22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed22 Mar 2017

Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The find_nearest_line function in objdump in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid write (of size 1) while disassembling a corrupt binary that contains an empty function name, leading to a program crash.