CVE-2017-7303

Description

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.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20922

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97213

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3