CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8396
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-20
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21432 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21432 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory