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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7301: binutils security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 29, 2017
Added
Aug 16, 2019
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Solutions

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