CVE-2017-7301

7.5 highEPSS 2.4%

High (7.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2017-03-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:binutils

References

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

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