CVE-2017-8394

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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 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/1/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gnu:binutils

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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