Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions *


low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.1% (41st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-BINUTILS-403553
  • published 22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed 22 Mar 2017

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.