PT-2017-8632
CVE-2016-4973
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Published
2017-06-07
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Updated
2017-06-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
GCC (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue concerns binaries compiled against targets using the libssp library in GCC for stack smashing protection, which might allow local users to perform buffer overflow attacks due to the lack of the Object Size Checking feature.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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