PT-2017-17650

CVE-2017-7304

Published

2017-03-29

Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.5

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Binutils version 2.28

Description The issue is caused by an invalid read in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library due to a missing check for an invalid sh link field. This results in Binutils utilities, such as strip, crashing.

Recommendations For GNU Binutils version 2.28, consider updating to a newer version that includes a fix for this issue, as the current version is prone to crashes due to the invalid read.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Marcel Böhme

Van-Thuan Pham

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-7304