Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 29, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7299
CVE-2017-7299
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.
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References
1- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97217nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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