Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-8397
The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 and an invalid write of size 1 during processing of a corrupt binary containing reloc(s) with negative addresses. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objdump, to crash.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 60.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
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