CVE-2017-7301 | BDVDB-2026-83352 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-03-29Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.