CVE-2017-7303

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 4) because of missing a check (in the find_link function) for null headers before attempting to match them. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to crash.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-7303

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2017-03-29T15:59:00

Last Modified Date
2017-03-31T17:00:51

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-125	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.5

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20922	Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97213	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7303
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7303

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 09:46:06				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:13:49	2017-03-29T15:59Z	2017-03-29T15:59:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 15:13:49		2017-03-31T17:00:51	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 15:13:49		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated