CVE-2017-7304

Name	CVE-2017-7304
Description	The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read (of size 8) because of missing a check (in the copy_special_section_fields function) for an invalid sh_link field before attempting to follow it. This vulnerability causes Binutils utilities like strip to 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
	sid, trixie	2.43.1-5	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
binutils	source	wheezy	(not affected)
binutils	source	(unstable)	2.27.51.20161212-1

Notes

[jessie] - binutils <ignored> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - binutils <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20931