CVE-2005-4807: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the as_bad function in messages.c in the GNU as (gas) assembler in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20050721 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .c file with crafted inline assembly code.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 5.04 only; version 5.10 only
• GNU Binutils: before 2.17 (fixed in 2.17)

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.