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CVE-2017-7304
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, 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.
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References
97215
vdb-entry
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931
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