CVE-2017-7226

mediumpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.025 · 85 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.49% (85th) EPSS
CVSS 6.4 · medium
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The pe_ILF_object_p function in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read of size 4049 because it uses the strlen function instead of strnlen, leading to program crashes in several utilities such as addr2line, size, and strings. It could lead to information disclosure as well.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.1
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–critical · 6.4–9.1

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 4.9
v3.09.1criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.2
v3.08.3highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

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CWE-125USprimary
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affected products (2)

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also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2017-03-22modified 2026-06-17
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references (5)

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