VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7300

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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 aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references