High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 29, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7301
CVE-2017-7301
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 has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.
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References
2- sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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