CVE-2017-7301

Description

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.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20924

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97218

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3