CVE-2017-7302: 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 a swap_std_reloc_out function in bfd/aoutx.h that is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing checks for relocs that could not be recognised. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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