CVE-2017-7300

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 60.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-125
Status draft

Affected Products (1)

gnu/binutils

Timeline

Published Mar 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026