Off-by-one Error Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.4% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-BINUTILS-22273017
  • published7 Nov 2026
  • disclosed1 Jan 2017

Introduced: 1 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-7301  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.