CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7614
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org