The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, 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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16331 The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T15:56:36.392Z

Reserved: 2017-03-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7304

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-29T15:59:00.317

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7304

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7304 - Bugzilla

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