NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.28-5
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- published1 May 2017
- disclosed1 May 2017
Introduced: 1 May 2017
CVE-2017-8395 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 binutils to version 2.28-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 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 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.