CVE-2017-7304

7.5 highEPSS 2.1%

High (7.5) in gnu binutils. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% 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/97215
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931

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