CVE-2017-7223

binutils: Global buffer overflow when attempting to unget EOF character

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 1, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write