CVE-2017-8397 | BDVDB-2026-85032 Detail

Description#

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 and an invalid write of size 1 during processing of a corrupt binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21434

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-05-01Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.