VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8394

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.84%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-05-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references