CVE-2017-7299

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an invalid read (of size 8) because the code to emit relocs (bfd_elf_final_link function in bfd/elflink.c) does not check the format of the input file before trying to read the ELF reloc section header. The vulnerability leads to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97217
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20908
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97217
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20908

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