High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 22, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7227
CVE-2017-7227
Description
GNU linker (ld) in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01nvd
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