CVE-2017-7304

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Published: 29/03/2017 Updated: 31/03/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 228, 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 ...

CWE-125 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7304

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