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CVE-2017-7227
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-22T16:59:00.293 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:23:53.910

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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References

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