CVE-2017-8395

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Gnu Binutils

PublishedMay 1, 2017

First seenMay 1, 2017

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
gnu binutils	2.28	—

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