CVE-2017-7301

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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-20

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 has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Affected products

GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924

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