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SUSE: CVE-2017-7303: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 29, 2017
Added
Dec 1, 2017
Modified
Feb 4, 2022

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing a check (in the find_link function) for null headers before attempting to match them. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-binutilssuse-upgrade-binutils-develsuse-upgrade-binutils-devel-32bitsuse-upgrade-binutils-goldsuse-upgrade-cross-ppc-binutilssuse-upgrade-cross-spu-binutilssuse-upgrade-libctf-nobfd0suse-upgrade-libctf0
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