CVE-2017-7304

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97215

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3