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CVE-2017-8394

Date: May 1, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (7)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8394
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8394
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8394
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-8394
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-8394

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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