CVE-2017-7299

medium

Published 2017-03-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an invalid read (of size 8) because the code to emit relocs (bfd_elf_final_link function in bfd/elflink.c) does not check the format of the input file before trying to read the ELF reloc section header. The vulnerability leads to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.27.51.20161220-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.27.51.20161220-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.27.51.20161220-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.27.51.20161220-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.27.51.20161220-1`
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	binutils	`2.28`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.