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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7223: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7223: binutils security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/22/2017
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

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(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-binutils-devel

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