CVE-2017-7301: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% 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 aout_link_add_symbols function in bfd/aoutx.h that has an off-by-one vulnerability because it does not carefully check the string offset. The vulnerability could lead to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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