CVE-2017-7302

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 a swap_std_reloc_out function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to 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-125
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/97216
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20921
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97216
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20921

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