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CVE-2017-7227

Date: March 22, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7227

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7227

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7227

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7227

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-7227

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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