Out-of-bounds Read Affecting binutils package, versions *
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- published 29 Mar 2017
- disclosed 29 Mar 2017
Introduced: 29 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-7299 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04
binutils
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an invalid read (of size 8) because the code to emit relocs (bfd_elf_final_link function in bfd/elflink.c) does not check the format of the input file before trying to read the ELF reloc section header. The vulnerability leads to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.