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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-29T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:56:36.319Z

Reserved: 2017-03-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7302

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-03-29T15:59:00.257

Modified: 2017-03-31T16:28:29.987

Link: CVE-2017-7302

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-12-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7302 - Bugzilla