CVE-2017-7299: GNU Binutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

Published 2017-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.