CVE-2017-7226

CRITICAL

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

The pe_ILF_object_p function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read of size 4049 because it uses the strlen function instead of strnlen, leading to program crashes in several utilities such as addr2line, size, and strings. It could lead to information disclosure as well.

References (1)

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20905

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1

EPSS 0.0038

EPSS Percentile 59.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-125

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Mar 22, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026