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 (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.

Bugs

• <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20908&gt;