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CVE-2017-7299

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.13%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-7299
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.13%

Original NVD Description

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.

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