NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075254
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. The dump_section_as_bytes function in readelf in GNU Binutils 2.28 accesses a NULL pointer while reading section contents in a corrupt binary, leading to a program crash.