CVE-2017-7301

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

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

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924Issue Tracking, Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924Issue Tracking, Patch

Timeline

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

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