NULL Pointer Dereference in readelf: Crash when Reading Corrupt Binary Section

CVE-2017-7209 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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