Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20177304000
Revision Date:2017-03-29Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7304 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7304
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'binutils' package in xenial is not affected.
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