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CVE-2017-8394

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

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: 2.28

References

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414

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