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.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-17347 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4336-2 | GNU binutils vulnerabilities |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T16:34:22.639Z
Reserved: 2017-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-8395
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-05-01T18:59:00.277
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-8395
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN