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CVE-2017-8396

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 1 because the existing reloc offset range tests didn't catch small negative offsets less than the size of the reloc field. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.

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GitHub Security Advisories

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⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-wv8w-rw6r-ppxm

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 1 because the existing reloc offset range tests didn't catch small negative offsets less than the size of the reloc field. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, 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-2017-8396
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
WEB https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21432

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

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21432
Published: 2017-05-01T18:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T16:34:23.037Z
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