CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7304

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, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. 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