CVE-2017-7304: GNU Binutils

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: version 2.28 only

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