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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7209: binutils security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7209: binutils security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/21/2017
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-binutils
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-binutils-devel

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