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CVE-2017-7302
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-29T15:59:00.257 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:05.890

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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