Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-7299
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 49.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
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