CVE-2017-7223

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 59.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-119
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Mar 22, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026