{"action":"Upgrade binutils to 2.27.51.20161220-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"2.27.51.20161220-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"binutils","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["2.27.51.20161220-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NCK8Q4SABZJGKX7ZVKBWZ7","modified_at":"2026-09-01T20:03:49.962658391Z","published_at":"2017-03-29T15:59:00.160Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7299","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7299"],"severity":{"label":"medium","score":5.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7299#Debian:13/binutils","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7299"}],"summary":"The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has an invalid read (of size 8) because the code to emit relocs (bfd_elf_final_link function in bfd/elflink."}