Invalid Read Vulnerability in BFD Library of GNU Binutils 2.28

CVE-2017-7302 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a swap_std_reloc_out function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

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