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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8395): GNU binutils vulnerabilities

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Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 1, 2017
Added
Jul 22, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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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