CVE-2017-7301

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7301
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7301.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7301
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-29T15:59:00.223Z
Modified
2026-07-08T16:53:31.769413Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an aoutlinkadd_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.

References

Affected packages

Git / sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
Events
Introduced
7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
Last affected
7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.28"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.28"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.28
Other
binutils-2_28

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7301.json"