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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7614: binutils NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7614: binutils NULL pointer dereference in bfd_elf_final_link function

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/09/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/28/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, has a "member access within null pointer" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-binutils

References

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