CVE-2017-7300

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Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published3/29/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:binutils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97219(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20909(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97219(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20909(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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