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CVE-2017-8395
Published: May 1, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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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References
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21431
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GLSA-201709-02
vendor-advisory
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