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CVE-2017-8421
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-02T17:59:00.210 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:26:21.860

Summary

The function coff_set_alignment_hook in coffcode.h in Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a memory leak vulnerability which can cause memory exhaustion in objdump via a crafted PE file. Additional validation in dump_relocs_in_section in objdump.c can resolve this.

Affected products

gnu — binutils

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