Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20177614000
Revision Date:2017-04-09Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7614 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - medium.
Description:elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7614
Platform(s):Ubuntu 17.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'binutils' package in artful is not affected (note: '2.29-1ubuntu1').
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