CVE-2017-8392

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Denial of Service via Missing NULL Check in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line

Title source: llm

Description

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21409

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0044

EPSS Percentile 63.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (1)

gnu/binutils 2.28

Published May 01, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026