CVE-2017-7301
Published: 29 March 2017
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.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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binutils Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(2.27.51.20161212-1)
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(2.28-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(2.28-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
(2.28-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needed
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Patches: Upstream: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=daae68f4f372e0618d6b9c64ec0f1f74eae6ab3d |
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