CVE-2017-8394

EPSS 0.38%
Published 01.05.2017 18:59:00
Last modified 20.04.2025 01:37:25
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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 Warnungen 0 Metrics 3 CWE 1 References 5

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Gnu ≫ Binutils Version2.28

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	0.38%	0.587

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	7.5	3.9	3.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov	5	10	2.9	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414

Patch

Third Party Advisory

Issue Tracking

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8394

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2017-8394

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8394

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