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CVE-2017-8395

CVE-2017-8395 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.50% · 66.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.50%
66.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSbinutils0, 2.23.52.20130913-0ubuntu1, 2.23.90.20131017-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSbinutils*, *, 2.25.90.20151125-1ubuntu1

Timeline

  • May 1, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
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