VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7299

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.13%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2017-03-29

Last modified2026-06-17

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

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch