CVE-2017-8394

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

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3