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CVE-2017-7223

high

Description

GNU assembler in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a global buffer overflow (of size 1) while attempting to unget an EOF character from the input stream, potentially leading to a program crash.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20898

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-22

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00167