Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075294
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7304  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

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