CVE-2017-7304
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.40%Published: 3/29/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7304
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 packages (1)
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.27.51.20161212-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |