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CVE-2017-7227

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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

• GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97209
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20906

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