Off-by-one Error Affecting binutils package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (34th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILS-1985631
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 3 Dec 2016
Introduced: 3 Dec 2016
CVE-2017-7301 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.