Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201773000000000
Revision Date:2017-03-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7300 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7300
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND binutils package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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