CVE-2017-7614
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-04-09 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:12
Severity ?
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/05/binutils-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-elflink-c/Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
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