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CVE-2017-8395

Published: 01/05/2017 Updated: 19/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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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gnu binutils 2.28

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-8395
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 228, 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 ...

References

CWE-476https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21431https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-02https://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8395
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