Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20177301000
Revision Date:2017-03-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7301 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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 has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7301
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'binutils' package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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