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CVE-2017-8394

UNKNOWN
Published 2017-05-01T18:00:00
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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.

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GitHub Security Advisories

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⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-mvv8-9c49-m8g7

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8394
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
WEB https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 17, 2022, Modified: May 17, 2022

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
Published: 2017-05-01T18:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.844Z
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