Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2017-7300
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.37%
Original Filing — NVD Description
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.