CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8393
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a global buffer over-read error because of an assumption made by code that runs for objcopy and strip, that SHT_REL/SHR_RELA sections are always named starting with a .rel/.rela prefix. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy and strip, to crash.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21412 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21412 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory