CVE-2017-7299

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 bfdelffinallink function in bfd/elflink.c does not check the format of the input file before trying to read the ELF reloc section header. The...

CVE-2017-7299

CVE-2017-7299 affects GNU Binutils 2.28’s Binary File Descriptor library (libbfd). The vulnerability arises when emitting relocations: bfd_elf_final_link in bfd/elflink.c reads the ELF reloc section header without validating the input file format, leading to an invalid read of size 8 and causing ...