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CVE-2017-7614
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-04-09T14:59:00.870 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:24:47.420

Summary

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 products

gnu — binutils

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