CVE-2017-8395

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…

published May 1, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01914 · 79.7th percentile
Published
2017-05-01T18:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 18:00Z
    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…
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