CVE-2017-7299

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97217Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20908Issue Tracking, Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97217Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20908Issue Tracking, Patch

Timeline

Published: Mar 29, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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