CVE-2017-8396

HIGH

GNU Binutils 2.28 - Denial of Service via Invalid Read in BFD Library

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 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.

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=21432

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-20

Status published

Products (1)

gnu/binutils 2.28

Published May 01, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026