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CVE-2017-7302
Published: Mar 29, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a swap_std_reloc_out function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.
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References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20921
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