CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7227
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209 www.securityfocus.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209 www.securityfocus.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906 Issue Tracking, Patch