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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7210: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7210: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/21/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/08/2018
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils

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