CVE-2017-7300

Name	CVE-2017-7300
Description	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 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read (off-by-one) because of an incomplete check for invalid string offsets while loading symbols, leading to a GNU linker (ld) program crash.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
binutils (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2.25-5+deb8u2	vulnerable
	stretch (lts), stretch	2.28-5+deb9u1	fixed
	buster, buster (lts)	2.31.1-16+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye	2.35.2-2	fixed
	bookworm	2.40-2	fixed
	trixie	2.43.50.20241215-1	fixed
	sid	2.43.50.20241221-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.27.51.20161212-1

[jessie] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - binutils <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20909