NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability in libbfd Library

CVE-2017-8394 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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