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GHSA-mvv8-9c49-m8g7

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH Has CVE

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.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-mvv8-9c49-m8g7
Published
May 17, 2022 12:53 AM
Last Modified
May 17, 2022 12:53 AM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 31, 2025 6:33 AM

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