CVE-2017-7299 — Out-of-bounds Read in Binutils

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read8 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedMar 29
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.27.51.20161220-1+3
▶NVDgnu/binutils2.28

Patches

Patch: sourceware.org ↗Patch: sourceware.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-rmj7-45wg-98hw: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-7299: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-03-29
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CVEList
CVE-2017-7299: The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2↗2017-03-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2021-07-21
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Debian
CVE-2017-7299: binutils - The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Bin...↗2017
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Red Hat
binutils: Out-of-bounds read in bfd_elf_final_link function↗2016-12-02
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7299 binutils: Out-of-bounds read in bfd_elf_final_link function↗2017-04-10
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