Ubuntu: USN-4336-2 (CVE-2017-7227): GNU binutils vulnerabilities
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/22/2017
07/24/2021
07/22/2021
03/22/2023
Description
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-binutils
- ubuntu-upgrade-binutils-multiarch
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