CVE-2017-7303

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    CVE-2017-7303

    Published: 29 Mar 2017Last Modified: 28 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97213, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20922

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7fa393306ed8b93019d225548474c0540b8928f7
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.28

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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