Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-7304
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.
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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