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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8395
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8395
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS v3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | binutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | binutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | binutils | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | binutils | 0, 0, 0 |
Timeline
- May 1, 2017 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated