CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-7303
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.22%
Original NVD Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing a check (in the find_link function) for null headers before attempting to match them. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.
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