Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-7300
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 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 60.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
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