Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20179752000
Revision Date:2017-06-19Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-9752 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.
Description:bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file in the _bfd_vms_get_value and _bfd_vms_slurp_etir functions during "objdump -D" execution.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-9752
Platform(s):Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) is installed.
  • AND The 'binutils' package in trusty is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK