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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 29, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-7304

CVE-2017-7304

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Affected products

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Patches

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