CVE-2017-8394

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in BFD Library

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.6%
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