CVE-2017-7614 - elflink.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2

CVE-2017-7614

Summary

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.

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	7.5 (as of 19-09-2017 - 01:36)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-476

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

refmap via4

gentoo	GLSA-201709-02
misc	https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/

Last major update

19-09-2017 - 01:36

Published

09-04-2017 - 14:59

Last modified

19-09-2017 - 01:36