Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:201714974000
Revision Date:2017-10-01Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-14974 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.
Description:The *_get_synthetic_symtab functions in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, mishandle the failure of a certain canonicalization step, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to elf32-i386.c and elf64-x86-64.c.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-14974
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND The vulnerability of the 'binutils' package in trusty is not known (status: 'needs-triage'). It is pending evaluation.
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