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CVE-2017-7301
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-29T15:59:00.223 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:05.763

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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