NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils-devel package, versions *
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed22 Apr 2017
Introduced: 22 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-8394 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 binutils-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.