CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7302

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-03-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a swap_std_reloc_out function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Affected configurations

• gnu binutils 2.28

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References