VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-8395

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.91%
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 write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. 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