CVE-2017-8395 (GCVE-0-2017-8395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-01 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21431 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-05-01 00:00
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