CVE-2017-7223: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.