PT-2017-17587

CVE-2017-7223

Published

2017-03-22

Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.5

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28

Description The GNU assembler in GNU Binutils is susceptible to a global buffer overflow of size 1 when trying to unget an EOF character from the input stream. This could potentially cause a program crash.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Marcel Böhme

Van-Thuan Pham

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-7223

MGASA-2019-0169

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3223-1