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CVE-2017-8394
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-01T18:59:00.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:26:18.627

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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