Global Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GNU Assembler (GNU Binutils 2.28)

Global Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in GNU Assembler (GNU Binutils 2.28)

CVE-2017-7223 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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