USN-6413-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing checks
when dealing with memory allocation operations, which could lead to
excessive memory consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-17122, CVE-2017-8421)

It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds
checks when processing debug sections with objdump, which could lead to
an overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a …

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