CVE-2017-8394 - The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulne

CVE-2017-8394

Summary

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 4 due to NULL pointer dereferencing of _bfd_elf_large_com_section. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414

Vulnerable Configurations

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

CVSS

Base:	5.0 (as of 19-09-2017 - 01:36)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-476

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

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

refmap via4

confirm	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21414
gentoo	GLSA-201709-02

Last major update

19-09-2017 - 01:36

Published

01-05-2017 - 18:59

Last modified

19-09-2017 - 01:36