Description
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.
Published: 2017-05-01
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-17344 The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.866Z

Reserved: 2017-05-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-8392

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-01T18:59:00.183

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-8392

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-04-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-8392 - Bugzilla

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