CVE-2017-7304

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% 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, 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 products

GNU Binutils: 2.28

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931

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