9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-7614

Published: 09/04/2017 Updated: 19/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 670
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability 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 malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an "int main() {return 0;}" program.

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Debian Bug report logs - #859989 binutils: CVE-2017-7614 Package: src:binutils; Maintainer for src:binutils is Matthias Klose <doko@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:24:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in version binutils/228-3 ...
elflinkc in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 228, 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 ...