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CVE-2017-7303
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-29T15:59:00.287 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:06.013

Summary

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing a check (in the find_link function) for null headers before attempting to match them. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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