CVE-2017-8397

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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 1 and an invalid write of size 1 during processing of a corrupt binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, 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-119

References

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21434(cve@mitre.org)

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21434(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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