CVE-2017-7304 | BDVDB-2026-83355 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931

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.