vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7223: Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 22, 2017 | Jan 8, 2018 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2017
Added
Jan 8, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
GNU assembler in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow (of size 1) while attempting to unget an EOF character from the input stream, potentially leading to a program crash.
Solution
gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-devel-binutils
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