Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 22, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7226
CVE-2017-7226
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.
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